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Dian Parker

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Revisiting the Edgeless and All-Encompassing Art of Helen Frankenthaler

For sixty-plus years, Helen Frankenthaler made paintings, prints, woodcuts and sculptures. “My pictures are full of climates, abstract climates…...

20.11.2024 4

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Arshile Gorky Comes Alive at Hauser & Wirth

The artist was called the last Surrealist and the first Abstract Expressionist, but his work belongs in neither category.

21.10.2024 6

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Albert Oehlen in Beijing: A Jazz Improvisation of Color

Bad boy? Bad art? Clever boy? Making art for the market? You decide.

08.10.2024 4

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In Vermont, a Once-Yearly Exhibition Juxtaposes Contemporary Art With Everyday History

With a population of only 600,000, Vermont seems to exist outside the confines of the United States, as if it were its own country. Living is...

19.09.2024 6

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In Dialogue: The Voluptas of Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher

Volupta was the goddess of sensual pleasure in Roman mythology whose parents were Cupid and Psyche (her name also implies willingness). In Greek...

28.08.2024 3

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Thirty-Five Years After His Death, Salvador Dali Is Still a Phenomenon

Salvador Dali was born in 1904, twenty-two months after his brother’s death, who was also named Salvador Dali. His mother often took Dali to see his...

26.08.2024 5

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Everyday Magic: Wayne Thiebaud’s Work Offers a Respite from Worldly Chaos

The utter lack of guile in Thiebaud’s work is refreshing, especially in today's world of confusing rhetoric and sharp criticism.

17.07.2024 4

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On the Spirit of Willem de Kooning: An Interview With His Assistant Tom Ferrara

The painter Tom Ferrara met Elaine De Kooning in 1976 in Maryland. Ferrara had been making sculptures that, she told him, “look like Bill’s...

03.07.2024 5

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‘Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools’ Showcases Three Hundred Years of Flemish Feeling

Sometimes while viewing an exhibition for the first time, one is fortunate enough to experience an unexpected shift of attitude. Such was my...

12.06.2024 8

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The Inspired and Revolutionary Pairing of Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore

Skulls and feathers, bodies and mountains, bones and shells are highlighted against blue skies and blue walls in “Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry...

02.05.2024 10

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On Pierre Bonnard’s Drama and Quiet Seduction

The angle of a doorframe, an open window, a table laid with fruit and teacup, a dog perched on a checkered tablecloth—all these moments of everyday...

11.04.2024 9

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Disintegrating to Permanence: On the Life and Work of Alberto Giacometti

During one three-year period of creative output, Alberto Giacometti was able to fit every piece that he had made into six matchboxes, which he then...

04.04.2024 4

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Rothko Achieves Clarity at the National Gallery of Art

“The progression of a painter’s work,” wrote Rothko, “as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity, toward the...

19.03.2024 4

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Don’t Miss: The Intense Stillness of Celia Paul’s ‘Life Painting’

“The main theme of the exhibition has to do with looking and being looked at,” Celia Paul told me. “I wanted to try and subvert the notion of...

02.02.2024 30

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The Invincible Jim Dine On Drive, Draftsmanship and His Own Mortality

Artist Jim Dine is a painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet—one who exemplifies what it takes to master a craft. He works seven days a week, 365...

02.01.2024 5

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