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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From the Archives: Lee Bontecou—Abstract Sinister
Lee Bontecou had not exhibited for a number of years when, in 1993, this small traveling exhibition reintroduced her sculptures and wall reliefs to the public.
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Reviewing American Fine Arts, Co.
Colin de Land's gallery American Fine Arts, Co. had an outsize presence in the art world of the 1980s and '90s. A.i.A. published nearly thirty reviews of AFA exhibitions by writers including Holland…
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Reviewing Pat Hearn Gallery
Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Pat Hearn operated one of the most innovative galleries in New York, promoting artists such as George Condo and Tishan Hsu to Mary Heilmann and Renée Green. Highlights…
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From the Archives: The Bureau of Indian Affairs: My Brother’s Keeper
No agency is more reviled than the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It is seen, by Indian and white alike, as the last great paternalistic bastion of government interference with the lives of private…
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From the Archives: Vito Acconci Stars and Stripes
American avant-garde artist-cum-architect Vito Acconci died on April 27 in Manhattan. To commemorate his legacy, we looked back in our archives to our November/December 1976 issue, in which Ross Skogg…
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From the Archives: Giving Art History the Slip
During the 1950s and '60s, artists such as Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, Lenore Tawney, and Robert Indiana claimed low-rent lofts along a shoreline on the southern tip of Manhattan as studio spaces…
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From the Archives: Dürer and the Lutheran Image
The best of Dürer's late portraits apotheosize a group of leading converts to the Reformation in Germany, all close to Luther himself as well as to the artist. In a radically simplified style, Dürer a…
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From the Archives: The Pro-scenic Event
Choreographer Trisha Brown died on March 18. Noted for early postmodern works that experimented with pedestrian movements and unusual performance venues, in the 1980s Brown returned to more convention…
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