Teens Wander a Postapocalyptic World in Stanya Kahn’s New Film
Kahn has frequently portrayed contemporary civilization as a wasteland, but No Go Backs may be her starkest treatment of the theme to date.
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Lauren Halsey’s Psychedelic Homage to South Central
Lauren Halsey's exhibition at David Kordansky, her first at the gallery, took the form of a clamoring, abstracted cityscape: a funk apotheosis of South Central—or, as the city and its real estate…
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In Agnes Pelton’s Ebullient Paintings, the Cosmos Is Flush with Gentle Energy
In 1932, at age fifty, Agnes Pelton, moved from Long Island to the desert town of Cathedral City, California, and, shortly thereafter, witnessed a great storm. She captured her impressions in the…
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An Exhibition Revises MoMA’s 1959 “New Images of Man” with Newer Images of Men—and Women
Dave Muller's wall-size painting Dust Jacket #1 (NIM Strand), 2020, depicts a worn copy of the catalogue for a 1959 Museum of Modern Art exhibition curated by Peter Selz, "New Images of Man." Muller…
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Fake Kardashians and CGI Porn Stars: Heji Shin’s “Angel Energy”
Heji Shin's exhibition at gaga & Reena Spaulings Los Angeles, "Angel Energy," pushed deeper into the themes of birth, beauty, and celebrity that she explored in her controversial mural-size portraits…
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A Show at Tom, Joe, and Rick Potts’s Plumbing Store–Turned-Gallery Highlights Their Eclectic Art
In 2016, Potts Plumbing Parts in Alhambra, California, stopped selling pipes and started showing art. The shift came naturally: brothers Tom, Joe, and Rick Potts—who took over the store, which their…
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Memelord as Critic: Brad Troemel Takes the Red Pill (And So Can You)
His shitposting is part of a sincere attempt to forge a new sort of relationship to art-making and its infrastructure, beyond a stratifying gallery system, that makes a direct connection to an audience on social media.
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Did Sturtevant Invent the Meme?
Freedman Fitzpatrick's recent exhibition of Sturtevant's rarely seen videos framed the works anachronistically as 'memes'—a term whose association with digital imagery had barely begun at the time…
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Jeanette Mundt’s Recent Paintings Ask What Simone Biles and Princess Diana Have in Common
Jeanette Mundt spread her subjects across the spectrum of realism and abstraction, playing with the tension between almost athletic precision and painterly flights of fancy.
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Art dealer Hannah Hoffman, recently turned the former house of Paul Revere Williams into a temporary exhibition space for a show of five video works by Tony Cokes. The context brought a particular…
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