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Sew Your Own Stella

Frank Stella’s career retrospective, opening at the Whitney Museum this Friday, Oct. 30, showcases approximately 120 works, including paintings, reliefs, maquettes, sculptures and drawings, that the…

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  Julia Wolkoff
• Oct 29, 2015 2:20 pm

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From the Archives: Blacks, Whites and Other Mythic Beings

Adrian Piper, the uncompromising Berlin-based American artist and philosopher whose work applies the rigorous strictures of conceptual art to questions of race and identity, was awarded a Golden Lion …

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  Eleanor Heartney
• Nov 1, 2001 9:00 am

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From the Archives: Victor Hugo: Drawn to the Void

There is something deeply appealing about the image of Hugo sitting alone on Guernsey, inventing half of formal modernism while cleaning his pen between chapters.

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  Richard Vine
• Mar 1, 1999 9:00 am

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From The Archives: Abstract Activist

In recent years, Araeen has shown an increasing enthusiasm for pitching his work in the context of, or incorporating within it, the chaotic flux of information and imagery which makes up our daily…

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  Guy Brett
• Feb 1, 1998 9:00 am

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Souvenirs

For the generation living in the age of Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Prefect of the Seine under Napoleon III and the man responsible for carrying out the Emperor's transformation of Paris, a city in…

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  Shelley Rice
• Sep 1, 1988 10:06 am

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Mishima, Mon Amour

Avoiding any critical probing into the private Mishima, Paul Schrader's film wraps a consistent, unsatisfying myth in flattering visual tissue

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  Gary Indiana
• Jan 1, 1986 9:00 am

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From The Archives: Telling Stories

What I am proposing, then, is that Baldessari's art can never be accounted for in terms of determinate meanings, but only as a set of specific esthetic strategies.

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  Craig Owens
• May 1, 1981 9:00 am