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Artist-Attorney Ragen Moss Treats Legal Language as a Sculptural Material
Los Angeles–based artist Ragen Moss creates sci-fi-ish sculptures in which biomorphic forms made of clear polyethylene contain organlike objects and hang from metal armatures, suggesting cocoons or…
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Daddy Issues: Mike Kelley’s Rebellion Against His Painterly Forefathers
Hans Hofmann hung over this exhibition of Mike Kelley's paintings like an oppressive father figure to rebel against.
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Is Valie Export’s 1980 Venice Biennale Installation Still Radical Today?
Austrian artist Valie Export is best known for provocative public performances that she described as a form of "expanded cinema," in which she used her body to challenge the coding of female social…
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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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Félix Vallotton and the Dark Heart of the Nineteenth-Century Bourgeoisie
As demonstrated by the paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's retrospective of Vallotton's work, "Painter of Disquiet," the artist was a fine colorist, on par with his better-known peers. Yet…
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Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Explore the Gulf Between Working at a Hip Office and Cleaning It
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's latest show at Postmasters centered on a new fictional video that explores how stark the disjuncture between blue- and white-collar labor has become.
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Photographer David Gilbert’s Tableaux Give Studio Detritus an Air of Drama and Glamour
David Gilbert's exhibition play fast and loose with art historical precedent, much like the glamorous architectural anachronisms evoked by the show's title: San Francisco's famous Victorian houses…
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Hugh Scott-Douglas’s “Trade Winds” Paintings and the Vagaries of Art’s Financialization
Is it ironic, or simply appropriate, that Hugh Scott-Douglas, an artist whose work has often taken up the flows of twenty-first-century capital as its theme, is the poster child for the vagaries of…
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Paul P.’s Ghostly Portraits Link Vintage Porn to Art Historical Tradition
Paul P.'s exhibition at Lulu was his first solo show in Mexico—and his first devoted primarily to portraiture in over a decade.
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Suzanne McClelland’s “Mute” Paintings Demonstrate a Provocative Silence in an Era of Noise
After thirty years of exhibiting her work, language has failed Suzanne McClelland. Or, more accurately, she has failed language, having banished text from her latest series of paintings, "Mute"…
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