It’s All About Good Timing: Goodwater at the Plumb
For the ancient Greeks, the division of time was represented by a separation of chronos from kairos. To symbolize durational or cyclical time, Greco-Roman…
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Stop Guarding the Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art will open an exhibition guest-curated by 17 of the museum’s security officers next March. Titled Guarding the Art, art…
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The Orgasmic Capacity of Color: Judy Chicago’s Los Angeles
Throughout this period I was also discovering that I was multi-orgasmic … I was developing color systems which made forms turn, dissolve, open, close,…
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Do Androids Dream of Representative Art?
“The closer we come to the danger, the more brightly do the ways into the saving power begin to shine and the more questioning…
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White Space, Black Spectacle at MASS MoCA
On May 28, 2017, MASS MoCA inaugurated its new Building 6, doubling its existing gallery space and turning the 16-acre complex of abandoned, 19th-century…
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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 Ellipses of Eva Hesse: Reading Her Collected Diaries
Eva Hesse’s collected diaries begin at the end. In the book’s last sentence, editor Barry Rosen thanks Hesse’s friend Gioia Timpanelli for discovering the…
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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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