Simone Leigh’s Sovereign Territory
The Golden Lion winner's Black female figures stake their claim—physically and morally—to the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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Elegant Stains
A new biography examines the decade in which Helen Frankenthaler helped pioneer Post-Painterly Abstraction.
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Nancy Spero Depicted Sexual Violence in an Era When the Subject Was Unspeakable
In her new book Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s, out this week from Thames & Hudson, A.i.A.contributing editor Nancy Princenthal explores the ways in which formal experi…
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The Pleasures of Refraction
At the very end of the Guggenheim Museum's revelatory exhibition of work by Hilma af Klint is a single stretch of the museum's spiraling ramp devoted to luminous and perplexing new paintings by R.H…
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Moving Targets
Collaboration and community have been central to L.A. painter Laura Owens's practice since the 1990s, though she now stands in the center of debates about the role of artists in gentrifying cities.
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Nancy Princenthal on David Wojnarowicz
"Wojnarowicz was so savagely honest about where he came from and making it part of his work, which is full of passion and rage but still has this amazingly lyrical touch."
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The Indiscreet Charm of Fischli and Weiss
“How to Work Better” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, surveys three decades of collaboration by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss, whose sculptures, photos and videos deftly combine absur…
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Lines of Thought
Examining Agnes Martin's traveling retrospective, her recent biographer considers how the formal and spiritual universals the painter sought arose out of the personal conditions she suppressed.
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Jennifer Wynne Reeves
Paint gets physical in the late Jennifer Wynne Reeves's work: bulked up into dented little bricks, squeezed into coils and cones, and knifed, fingered and smeared onto a variety of surfaces that inclu…
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Paint by Numbers: Suzanne McClelland
In a spate of exhibitions featuring recent paintings, photographs and videos, Suzanne McClelland explores the power of numbers as a motif.
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