Regional Unreal
Grant Wood created an art of populist appeal, which, when probed for its underlying content, reveals troubling tensions and endless ambiguities.
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Layaway
Artists have been sleeping in public for some time now; it's the kind of move that pretends to invoke direct access to the unconscious.
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Moving Targets
Collaboration and community have been central to L.A. painter Laura Owens's practice since the 1990s, though she now stands in the center of debates about the role of artists in gentrifying cities.
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Implied Density and Mystic Frogs: Jim O’Rourke on Composing Sounds for Alexander Calder
The musician's instrumental piece "Calder Walk" was commissioned for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York.
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Nancy Princenthal on David Wojnarowicz
"Wojnarowicz was so savagely honest about where he came from and making it part of his work, which is full of passion and rage but still has this amazingly lyrical touch."
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Small and Heavy Spheres Turn: Christian Marclay Plays a Calder Mobile at the Whitney Museum
A freeform performance accompanied the exhibition "Calder: Hypermobility."
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“Overview: The National Exhibition”
Both the Whitney Biennial and the Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art opened in March. The Biennial is old: the current iteration is its seventy-second. The Triennial, which closed in May, wa…
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Elements from the Actual World
Jimmie Durham's wryly humorous sculptures, paintings, and drawings can be seen as the composite self-portrait of a man with a contentious relationship to all ethnic and national identifiers. …
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From the Archives: Linda Nochlin on Black Male
"Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" was a landmark exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art organized by curator Thelma Golden in 1994. Art…
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‘Speak Out on Inauguration Day’: Words at the Whitney Museum Take Aim at Trump
“Good morning, thanks for being together in this temple of art on this terrible day.” So went the opening words at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for “Speak Out on…
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