Art

Surrealist Afterlives: On LACMA’s “In Wonderland”
Dorothea Tanning, Birthday, 1942   ON JANUARY 15, 1943, the New York Sun’s chief art critic, Henry McBride, explained precisely why it was women “excelled” at surrealism: Surrealism is about 70 percent hysterics, 20 percent literature, and 5 percent good ...
Eli DinerAug 23, 2012
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Faces of Florence
On the lost humanism of Renaissance portraiture...
Joseph LuzziJun 26, 2012
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Art Book: Robert Seydel’s “Book of Ruth”
"Even the 'author photograph' at the end of the book is another collage."...
Jocelyn HeaneyMay 20, 2012
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The Mastery of Non-Mastery
a narrative that, even when circling away to the streets of Paris or the souks of Tangiers, continually spirals back to the figures by the roadside...
Jennifer WallaceMar 30, 2012
Details, Details
Ford’s obsession is such that even his home, the space that shapes and surrounds his daily life, becomes a relentless design project...
Jonathan CrismanMar 23, 2012
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- Nonfiction
Art Therapy
At the center of this maelstrom of sexual expression and experimentation, Kusama staunchly maintained her identity as auteur, not as participant....
Sharon MizotaJan 25, 2012
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- Memoir
The Future Belongs to Crowds
Opie has always asked to be written into history....
Jeff ChangJan 20, 2012
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Object Relations
There's no doubt that Hammons is one of the most important artists — conceptual, black, or otherwise — to emerge in America in the last 50 years....
Cameron ShawDec 22, 2011
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Was Gertrude Stein a Collaborator?
Stein recommends Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, just as Freud "recommends" the Gestapo — with the same perfect irony....
Renate StendhalDec 17, 2011
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- History
Thoroughly Modern Elsa
Since her rediscovery by scholars over a decade ago, photographs of the Baroness have become, in their way, as iconic of the era of Dada as any....
Brian Kim StefansDec 16, 2011
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- Nonfiction
Looking Promiscuously
Hainley’s occasional lashings are needles meant to puncture consensus....
Brian SholisOct 20, 2011
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- Nonfiction
The Intimate Art: Georgia O'Keeffe's Letters
AMONG LETTERS BY PROMINENT ARTISTS, annals by American visual artists are rare. Now comes a compelling text — the vibrant, at times frankly sexual and impassioned letters that flowed between modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), so at home in the Southwest with ...
Nancy BarnesAug 11, 2011
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- Biography
Droll Ontology
Desire and despair smolder fulvous, pungent and sulphuric in Gronk’s black and white....
Sesshu FosterJul 22, 2011
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Aberrant Behavior: On Alex Toth
I knew Toth — not all that well, but well enough to realize at a certain point that avoiding contact with him was a positive and healthy lifestyle....
Howard ChaykinJul 20, 2011
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The Eyes Think
You look up again, and each small step forward unveils a newly unfamiliar scene....
Dana BuntrockJul 7, 2011
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Where the Action Was
This was the canonical American art for which the claim "you had to be there" seemed strongest ......
Ben LernerMay 19, 2011
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Channeling Georg Trakl: Christian Hawkey's "Ventrakl"
A "ghostly reanimation" of the poet's textual presence; translation gives way to transposition, to citational graft and recycling....
Marjorie PerloffMay 17, 2011
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Flea Market
An essay on the late photographer Miroslav Tichý, excerpted from 'Richard Prince: Collected Writings'....
Richard PrinceApr 21, 2011
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