She Was Paying Attention: Remembering Alexis Smith
Satisfaction (2000) by the artist Alexis Smith is a collage that features a shabby reproduction of Hokusai’s The Great Wave placed within a glitzy…
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“All Awareness Becomes Base”: Jens Hoffmann’s Reduction of The Arcades Project
“What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near it may be. To…
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Gallerist Virginia Dwan, the Reluctant Legend
“Any ideas of art history or significance were forgotten,” wrote gallerist Virginia Dwan in 1990, remembering the first time she saw one of Yves…
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“The Only Things That are Unchangeable are Tombstones”: Vito Acconci (1940-2017)
Vito Acconci, a towering figure in the history of performance art, and more recently known for his experimental architecture, has died at the age…
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