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Unboxing the Museum
Curator Johannes Cladders outdid today's remote access efforts when, fifty years ago, he packed mini exhibitions by Jasper Johns and Hanna Darboven into cardboard boxes.
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Future Perfect: “Born in Flames” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
Named after Lizzie Borden's 1983 film, the exhibition features otherworldly beings who point to alternate societies.
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Assemblage as Medium and Method: “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show” at Ortuzar Projects
Suzanne Jackson's 1970 "Sapphire Show" protested Black women artists' exclusion in Los Angeles.
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What a Movement Looks Like
Sarah Schulman's oral history of ACT UP is not just a record of the past but a guide to designing and staging direct action.
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One Work: Naotaka Hiro’s “Untitled (At Dawn)”
Naotaka Hiro's emblemlike painting of an abstract demon continues his interest in visualizing bodily phenomena, while charting a darker psychological period.
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Artist Persona: Frank Gehry at Gagosian
Frank Gehry's new Alice in Wonderland-themed immersive installation suggests the Kusama effect has supplanted the Bilbao effect.
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Art Isn’t What it Eats: Lygia Pape at Hauser & Wirth
Brazil's Anthropophagic movement of the 1960s advocated for an art that consumed colonial influences without neglecting Indigenous roots. Lygia Pape's version is even more cannibalistic.
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Data and Detail
An experiment in the digital humanities seeks to shift the scale of art historical analysis.
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Cold Light: Deborah Remington at Bortolami and Craig F. Starr
A pair of New York shows highlighted the hard-edge paintings and drawings of the late Deborah Remington.
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A Theory of Everything
A new history of autotheory suggests that anyone can deploy the genre to effective ends. But is it really so universal?
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