How Do Artists Do It? Parsing Their Life Stories
For five centuries, artist biographers have sought to explain how creativity emerges from everyday life.
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Minor Literature: Kafka’s Drawings
The mediocrity of Kafka's previously unpublished drawings, collected in a new volume, throws the brilliance of his novels and stories into sharp relief.
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Swirls of Flesh: Dorothea Tanning at Kasmin Gallery
The range of paintings on view showcased Tanning's strengths as a colorist as well as her more muddled efforts.
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Spinning Wheels: Rochelle Feinstein at Bridget Donahue and Candice Madey
Although they might seem like dead ends, Rochelle Feinstein's paintings are so steeped in American culture that they emit potent critiques.
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The Asphalt Avant-Garde
A road trip leads to seeing the US highway system as the country's most spectacular postwar work of art.
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Dash of Earth, Flash of Sky: Alice Trumbull Mason at Washburn Gallery
Alice Trumbull Mason, under-recognized during her lifetime, melded rhythmic forms into subtly masterful paintings in acidic and earthy hues.
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Icons to Icons: John Chamberlain at Gagosian
If we opt out of seeing cars in Chamberlain's crushed car sculptures, what else can we see?
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Flight Patterns: John Akomfrah at Lisson Gallery
In his latest film, John Akomfrah gives visual and historical shape to the traumas of this decade—pandemic, police violence, oppression—without blurring their forms.
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Man of Action
A new biography of the midcentury critic Harold Rosenberg offers an unconvincing case for his reappraisal.
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Gray Areas: Maggie Nelson’s Ambivalent Essays
In her new essay collection, "On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint", Maggie Nelson offers an unconvincing argument in favor of indeterminacy.
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