Comic Artist Gary Panter’s Crude Drawings Riff on Dante, Punk, and Monster Movies
In Gary Panter's drawings, a line is not the shortest path between two points, but a slow, wavering one, a termite's crawl with endless detours and distractions.
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You get the sense that Fotografiska is pounding the square peg of the artists’ work through the round hole of the museum’s brand.
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David Lynch's exhibition at Sperone Westwater, "Squeaky Flies in the Mud," found the seventy-three-year-old auteur at his worst.
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Since he took his first photographs in the late '50s, Michals has made a delicate art of playfulness. He packs his works with juvenile pranks, dizzying optical illusions, and winking allusions.
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If nothing else, Alex Prager's show at Lehmann Maupin served as a reminder that the influence of David Lynch should be handled with extreme caution.
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Roy DeCarava’s Anti-Documentary Approach to Photographing Blackness
In the 1950s and '60s, when he was already one of the most daring photographers in the United States, Roy DeCarava would complain that his critics expected him to be a documenter of black people in…
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A David Hockney Biopic Refutes the Trope of Artistic Genius
Shot over the course of three years, released in 1974, and reissued as a 4K restoration this June, A Bigger Splash is a triumph of docufiction—a word that adequately sums up its mishmash of staged…
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“Apollo’s Muse” Explores the Romanticism of Space
The Met's exhibition "Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography" demonstrates that moon maps and astronomical treatises are triumphs of the imagination, as indebted to Jules Verne as they are…
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Accusing Harmony Korine of nihilism or decadence is like arguing with yourself: his work embraces its faults so single-mindedly that they begin to seem like virtues.
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Bleeding seems like an apt metaphor for the nakedly confessional art of Robert Dennis Crumb (b. 1943), a man so obsessed with his own id that one of his comic books is actually called "Id."
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