The Human Instamatic: Martin Wong’s Visionary Paintings of New York Continue to Intrigue
Red-brick tenements, Puerto Rican poets, and prison convicts grace Martin Wong's paintings.
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Social Scales: Aaron Gilbert and Martin Wong at P·P·O·W
The two painters, working decades apart, have represented social crises in ways both mystical and grounded, caring and stark.
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Matthew Wong Ink Works, Never Before Exhibited, Will Alight in New York
Cheim & Read will show 24 pieces by the late artist in a return to its Chelsea gallery, which it shuttered in 2019.
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KAWS & Effect: As His Own Fame Grows, Brian Donnelly Avidly Collects Art
The closely watched artist discusses his rapidly growing holdings.
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From the Archives: Art & AIDS—The Stuff Life Is Made Of
When accounts of American art in the late 1980s and 1990s are written, recurrent themes will emerge: the body, sexual identity, childhood, mortality. And all of them, directly or indirectly, link up t…
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Rainbow Brain: The Visual Poetry of Martin Wong
The revelatory retrospective of Martin Wong at the Bronx Museum focuses on his painting at the expense of his poetry. Language is all over his paintings, from graffiti to inscriptions to sentences spe…
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Street Life
The Chinese-American artist Martin Wong (1945-1999) celebrated both his cultural heritage and New York's gritty Lower East Side in paintings rife with firemen, convicts, pop icons, graffitied walls an…
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The Year in the Galleries of New York
Plus, a few items elsewhere in the city and a top 7 list from all over
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Best of New York, 2015
Stuart Comer is chief curator of media and performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He recently spoke with A.i.A. about 10 of New York's most noteworthy spaces, exhibitions and projects…
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