John Cage, Man of Music—and Mushrooms
In February 1959, John Cage appeared on the Italian television program "Lascia o Raddoppio" (Double or Nothing), a popular game show on which contestants had to answer obscure trivia questions about…
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Richard Artschwager’s Late-Career New Mexico Drawings Take Viewers through the Plains of His Youth
The works are an understated coda to his adventurous output, which spanned Minimalism, Conceptual art, and Pop.
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Frida Kahlo’s Visits to the United States Helped Crystallize Her Unique Artistic Persona
The artist treated clothing as an artistic palette and her way of dressing as continuous with the self-portraits she painted.
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In a New Collection of Genre-Bending Essays, Wayne Koestenbaum Swerves from Literary Criticism to Sex Dreams
Wayne Koestenbaum's prose can be picked out of a lineup more quickly than that of almost any living American writer. Other contemporary stylists have easily identifiable signatures, but few of them…
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A Recent Book Explores What It Means to Write without Meaning
What—and how—does meaningless writing mean?
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According to Hal Foster, Good Art Asks Hard Questions. But Should Criticism Provide Answers?
In the interregnum of this socially distanced spring, reading Hal Foster's What Comes After Farce? Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle felt like a whirlwind tour through a period that had suddenly…
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Living in Exile, Cuban Painter Carlos Alfonzo Developed an Expressionist Style Rooted in Afro-Cuban Imagery
"Carlos Alfonzo: Witnessing Perpetuity" gathered major works from every phase of the artist's career, which was cut short by his death from AIDS-related complications in 1991, at age forty-one.
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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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An Exhibition Illuminates the Charged Relationship Between John Singer Sargent and His Black Muse, Thomas McKeller
A fortuitous elevator encounter between two men at a posh Boston hotel in 1916 resulted in a relationship that was instrumental to the creation of some of the most celebrated artworks of early…
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Art Historians Are Obsessed With Recovering Lost Names. But Are They Asking the Wrong Questions?
"The Unknown Artist," an exhibition organized by Lucy Cotter, probed the very values of attribution, with eleven unattributed objects from around the world that spanned twelve centuries and ten…
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