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Must-See Museum Shows Opening in February
Art in America editors highlight some significant and intriguing shows opening in February.
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From the Archives: Nan Goldin’s Best-Known Work Is an Intimate Visual Diary of the 1980s
Nan Goldin took hundreds of up-close and personal photos of friends in a freewheeling era of sex, drugs, nightclubs, and, ultimately, AIDS.
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From the Archives: Why Don’t Critics Make Judgments Anymore?
Raphael Rubinstein laments the lack of opinion in contemporary art criticism and offers some judgments of his own.
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From the Archives: How José Bedia Blends Religious Traditions in His Art, and His Life
Unlike the appropriative methods of Picasso, José Bedia's primalist process involves direct sacrifice, a giving back, and the nurturing of trust and friendship with native artists and philosophers.
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Woman Up: Nina Yankowitz Defies the Patriarchy
Since the mid-1960s, the New York artist has fought to have her work—especially her early draped paintings—appreciated in nonsexist terms.
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From the Archives: Why Should We Export Culture?
As director of the US Information Agency, Edward R. Murrow penned this article in our Winter 1962 issue on the virtues of presenting American culture abroad.
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Michael Snow’s Experimental Films Toy with Perception and Representation
Three major Michael Snow shows in 1994 revealed a unifying them in the Canadian artist's diverse body of work: the interplay of reality and illusion.
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Stella Zhong’s Sculptures and Videos Summon Senses of Intimacy and Alienation
Enigmatic and opaque, Zhong's work masks and makes meaning through sculptural repetition and scalar confusion.
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From the Archives: Andres Serrano, The Spirit and The Letter
Serrano's "Piss Christ" caused a scandal in 1989 when it was attacked by U.S. congressmen and religious leaders. The criticism missed the work's spiritual ambivalence.
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Must-See Museum Shows for January
Art in America editors have selected some significant and intriguing museum exhibitions around the world that are on view or opening in January.
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