The Figure is Back in New Museum Triennial
The figure is back. This is the main thesis according to New Museum’s Triennial “Surround Audience,” which offers a near-deafening obsession with the self….
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Janet Werner’s Truer Subject, the Women Unseen
It’s interesting that Janet Werner graduated in the same class as John Currin. It shouldn’t be remarkable, as they’re both statured and fully-arrived painters….
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The Contemporary Erotics of Laurie Kang
Sometimes a cliché is the only way to describe an experience so fundamentally mood-inducing that it illuminates the very reason we do what we…
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AA Bronson Breathes New Life as He Raises the White Flag
… it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things … and yet … it is, the intensifying agent in things the…
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Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Legacy and Deviation of Relational Aesthetics in the East
“Beauty” and “dreamscape” are not buzzwords in today’s critical-art discourse. And yet they describe the Mori Art Museum’s Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The…
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Ben Schumacher Comes of Age at New York’s Bortolami Gallery
It seems like Ben Schumacher took a while to find what he really wanted. The 29-year-old Canadian-born artist studied architecture and art at the University…
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Bad Dream of the Bauhaus: Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s IKEA Fantasia
Entering Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s Out of This Light, Into this Shadow, his second solo exhibition at galerie antoine ertaskiran, the first thing that strikes me…
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The Temptation of Everything in Michael Dudeck’s “Messiah Complex 5.0”
When a contemporary performance artist adopts religion in general as the theme of a work, a few things are likely to occur: the work…
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How to Start an Art School
Why would you even want to? We want to be makers, not bureaucrats or lecturers. But after a dozen years of making, maybe you…
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Luc Tuymans Dares Painting to Lose
Luc Tuymans does not shy away from controversy. For his new exhibition at David Zwirner in London, for example, one of his paintings is…
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