One Work: Bob Thompson’s “The Carriage”
In his take on a well-known Nicolas Poussin painting, Bob Thompson presents a more eerie scene with darker implications.
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Nina Simone and Bob Thompson’s Spirits Are Invoked in a Night of Music at Chicago’s Smart Museum
Simone has been a touchstone for a number of artists, but perhaps none more so than Thompson, whom she called a close friend.
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‘Picturing Mississippi, 1817–2017’ at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
See images from one notable show every weekday.
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Critical Eye: Mimi Gross in Her World
In a vast trove of drawings, New York artist Mimi Gross has reflected over the past forty years on her immersion—as a painter, set-and-costume designer, photographer, and filmmaker—in bohemian milieus…
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“Blackness in Abstraction”
More than halfway through “Blackness in Abstraction,” an austere photograph by Carrie Mae Weems posed a Mies van der Rohe leather daybed—conjuring a truant psychoanalytic patient, perhaps—against a wa…
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From the Archives: Process, Image and Elegy
Focusing on form was a means of absorbing and coping with the political and social tensions of the '60s and '70s.
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From the Archives: Process, Image, and Elegy
Despite his continued preoccupation with such formal issues, Whitten's subject has never been restricted to painting itself. In every period of his career, Whitten has dedicated paintings to the…
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