Julia Wachtel on Pandemic Screen Culture
The painter discusses advertising and popular culture imagery in her work and her recent experimentation with video.
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Douglas Crimp, Trailblazing Art Historian Who Merged Politics and Philosophy, Dies at 74
His essays on image circulation, art and AIDS, and institutional critique have been massively influential.
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Riddles for Minds and Bodies
There is something ardent about Barbara Bloom's fascination with the lives behind her found images and objects.
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Issues & Commentary: Truisms and Lies
Jenny Holzer sought to counter the abuse of power; Trump seeks to perpetuate it.
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“Outliers and American Vanguard Art”
Self-taught, modern primitive, visionary, folk artist: for decades, the field of outsider art has been mired in debate over its terminology.
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Memory Banks
What these works express is less a coherent critical position than a shared sense of dispossession. In this way, "Brand New" feels like less a historical survey than a field report of the current…
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Changing Channels: Dara Birnbaum’s Televisual Art Comes into Focus
Since the 1970s, her pioneering videos and installations have questioned ideas at work in mass media.
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Photo Play: The Story of the Pictures Generation
Arriving in New York from Los Angeles, Buffalo and beyond, several loosely affiliated cohorts met and mingled with artists native to the city, traded ideas, shared allegiances and became a "generati…
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Michael Zwack, Painter Initially Associated with the Pictures Generation, Dies at 67
Michael Zwack, a New York–based painter whose spiritually and emotionally engaged work was initially associated with the Pictures Generation, died on May 5. The cause was lung cancer. The artist was…
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Pictures Generation Artist Philip Smith Wins 2016 Miami Beach NADA Artadia Award
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) and Artadia, a nonprofit dedicated to giving artists grants, announced Philip Smith as the winner of the joint 2016 Miami Beach NADA Artadia Award. The prize is…
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