From the Archives: Chambi of Cuzco
In this month’s issue of A.i.A., Desi Gonzalez reports on developments in Peruvian typography for our Atlas column. It’s the second entry in a three-part series, the first of which addressed museum…
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Fischli/Weiss: Masters of the Glum “Eureka!”
Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss began collaborating in 1979 (Weiss died in 2012), imbuing varied works—almost all concerned with the banality of the artists' everyday lives—with their trademar…
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From the Archives: Linda Nochlin on Ellsworth Kelly
To reflect on the legacy of American abstract painter Ellsworth Kelly, who died on Dec. 27, we take a look back on Linda Nochlin's "Kelly: Making Abstraction Anew," published on the occasion of his Gu…
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Made in the U.S.A.: Art from Cuba
In February 1985, José Bedia, Ricardo Rodríguez Brey and Flavio Garciandía arrived in the U.S. for a four-month stay as artists in residence at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. The…
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From the Archives: Louise Bourgeois—Gender & Possession
For 40 years Louise Bourgeois has resisted assimilation. Indeed, she is the last major figure of her generation whose "art world" reputation and influence on younger artists involve no significant deb…
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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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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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From the Archives: Utopia Revisited
The aspiration to expand a formal or purely esthetic system into a philosophy of life was—and is—a distinguishing characteristic of Russian culture from the Orthodox icon to Socialist…
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From the Archives: The Power of the Portraitist
The portraits of Peter Hujar are extraordinary in their refusal to mask the moment of giving in.
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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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