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‘The Poetics of Democracy’ Reconstructed the Cultural Clashes of Post-Franco Spain
The cultivation of memory is a vital part of contemporary Spanish society. It informs conflicts between federalists and nationalists, socialists and neoliberals.
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Was Manet Ever Truly Modern?
Critics and art historians often take Édouard Manet to be the first master of reification, the original modern painter. Evidence of that mastery is intermittent at best in the exhibition "Manet and…
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Tomma Abts
The thirty-two small, abstract paintings in Tomma Abts's show, which the Art Institute co-organized with the Serpentine Galleries in London, recall what Ezra Pound said he was trying to do with his…
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Delacroix’s Modernism
Few artists had so decisive an impact on modern art as the painter and graphic artist Eugène Delacroix.
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Counterfactuals are back in fashion. The election of Donald Trump catapulted sales of Philip Roth's novel The Plot Against America (2004), which describes what might have occurred if Charles…
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“Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins”
Subcultures, countercultures, unconventional cultures, outsider cultures, and liminal cultures all exist within the policed domain of capitalist culture.
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Paul Gauguin
Far from an alchemist who spun magic from dross, Gauguin was a materialist who embraced the terrestrial. The women in his pictures, with their heavy limbs and big feet, are decidedly earthbound.
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