With Her Monumental Fountain in London, Kara Walker Offers a Gift We Shouldn’t Accept
The work addresses the history of slavery in England—and makes grave errors in the process.
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Vivian Suter’s Painting-Based Installations Register the Volatility of Nature
In the four decades since she moved to a remote village in Guatemala, Vivian Suter has exhibited only sporadically, though her vibrant abstract paintings have attracted increased attention in the…
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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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Painter Michael Simpson Renders the Cruelties of Religion Using the Strictures of Minimalism
In his work, Michael Simpson, an avowed atheist, often alludes to the cruel hierarchies and injustices imposed by organized religion, framing religious institutions as sites of exclusion and…
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Deborah Roberts Renders the Complexity of Black Childhood in Collage
Roberts's work focuses almost exclusively on depictions of black youth: bold, graphic figures composed of gouache bodies pasted with faces and hands cut from photographs found in magazines or online…
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Frank Bowling’s Delirious Conflagrations of Form, Color, and Texture
Frank Bowling's exhibition at Tate Britain wasn't just a retrospective. It was also an argument for Bowling's canonical status, an effort to usher the Guyana-born painter into the cast of…
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Derek Jarman
Most of the works in this poignant exhibition of assemblage-style paintings by Derek Jarman, "Shadow Is the Queen of Colour," comprised canvases on which objects such as crucifixes, a whip, and…
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Jonathan Horowitz
Jonathan Horowitz, who was trained in philosophy, often uses witty juxtapositions of appropriated imagery to emphasize the mutual interdependence of politics, entertainment, and consumerism. The…
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Daria Martin
London-based artist and filmmaker Daria Martin took as a starting point the dream diaries kept by her Jewish grandmother Susi Stiassni, whose family fled Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1938, when Stiassni…
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Beatrice Gibson
French-British filmmaker Beatrice Gibson champions community, creativity, and motherhood as ways of living through times of political turmoil.
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