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Clothes That Don’t Need You
What kind of artist is Rei Kawakubo? Let’s call her a combinatory formalist. She is unusually adept at combining the many disparate influences that course through her designs into unlikely, arresting, contrapuntal compositions. She is first of all a creator of images—of pictures liberated from their original settings, and in this she belongs with the Pictures Generation, that group of mediacentric artists who were among her first devotees. Fashion is the place where the associative, imagistic mind can run riot with impunity; it’s a postmodernist playground. By David Salle.
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The Weird Illustrations That Shaped Sci-Fi Pop Culture
A century ago, a small but influential group of artists and researchers teamed up to discover and introduce strange new species to the public. By Sam Lubell.
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Hubert de Givenchy Talks Jackie, Audrey, And The Duke Of Windsor Counting His Cash
Hubert de Givenchy talks Jackie, Audrey, and the Duke of Windsor counting his cash
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Myth-Maker of the Brothel
Of all the masters of the woodblock print in the Edo Period, Utamaro has the most colorful reputation. Hokusai was perhaps the greatest draughtsman… By Ian Buruma.
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In Detroit, Artists Explore the Riches of the 99-Cent Store
For a summer exhibition titled “99 Cents or Less,” the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit has begun to resemble a dollar shop. By Chris Hampton.
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Sydney Opera House sails to light up every sunset with Indigenous art
The late Aboriginal artist Lin Onus hoped his art would create “some sort of bridge” between Indigenous and European cultures, yet it is unlikely he would have imagined his work flying across the sails of the Sydney Opera House every sunset. By Julie Power.
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‘8th World Wonder’ May Lie Below Volcanic Lakeshore
Using a 19th century cartographer’s field diary, researchers think they’ve found the location of a revered landmark thought to be destroyed. By Sarah Gibbens.
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The Magus of Paris
Joséphin Péladan’s mystical art exhibitions, in Paris, set the stage for everything from Kandinsky’s abstractions to Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” By Alex Ross.
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Nobody Will Make Us Do Yoga: A Conversation with Michel Houellebecq
The acclaimed and controversial French author discusses his new show of photographs. By Christian Lorentzen.
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Matisse: The Joy of Things
Matisse, unsurprisingly, had strong feelings about the objects of his daily life. They delighted, inspired, or confounded him, in their humble ordinariness and in all that they evoked. These mundane items, the organizing principle for the exhilarating show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, served as sparks for Matisse’s art. By Claire Messud.
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits
The British-Ghanaian artist creates compelling character studies of people who don’t exist, reflecting her twin talents as a writer and a painter. By Zadie Smith.
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Saul Steinberg’s View of the World
As a cartoonist myself, I am dismayed that there’s little of Saul Steinberg’s that I can steal, the crossover in the Venn diagram of the image-as-itself versus as-what-it-represents being depressingly slim. I am painfully aware that in comics, stories generally kill the image. But Steinberg’s images grow and even live on the page; somewhere in the viewing of a Steinberg drawing the reader follows not only his line, but also his line of thought. By Chris Ware.
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Salvation Mode
Visually mesmerizing, intellectually engaging, and nearly decommodified, screensavers reveled in a stillness and rapture that’s gone missing in technology. By Zack Hatfield.
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Secrets Of The Sea
A Tang Shipwreck & Early Trade In Asia. By Kristin Nord.
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The Puzzle of Irving Penn
“I’m a surprisingly limited photographer,” Penn insisted to me, “and I’ve learned not to go beyond my capacity. I’ve tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I’ve failed.” Yet it is difficult to deny that Penn was the supreme studio photographer of the twentieth century. His artistry both emerged from and depended on his very specific, highly aestheticized commercial work. By Martin Filler.
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No Fluff in Their Stuff: Museum Guards Review the Whitney Biennial
It’s time to take the cork out of these untapped geysers of art criticism and let them gush! By Xavier Aaronson. (Apr 5, 2012)
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Eric Gill: can we separate the artist from the abuser?
Eric Gill was one of the great British artists of the 20th century – and a sexual abuser of his own daughters. A new exhibition at Ditchling asks: how far should an artist’s life affect our judgment of their work? By Rachel Cooke. (Apr. 9, 2017)
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Carmen Herrera: Art Without Lies
The current exhibition of Herrera’s work at the Whitney Museum endeavors to rectify the American art world’s long-term neglect: it focuses on Herrera’s work from 1948-1978, from her earliest abstracts through the various stages of her artistic evolution. For audiences, the revelation over the past decade of Herrera’s bold and vital work is a glorious gift. By Claire Messud. (Dec. 29, 2016)
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When Art Meets Power
It is impossible and wrong, in this fascinating exhibition on Russian art between 1917-1932, to separate art from politics, utopian propaganda from dystopian tragedy. Aesthetic judgement is inevitably compromised. Some may think it obscene to celebrate this period in Russian art: yet it is surely right to make us confront it, to see the boldness of the art and to try and fathom the mixed motives, the hopes and fears and struggles of the artists involved. Right too, when the headlines are full of Trump and Putin, to remind us of the history. By Jenny Uglow.
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An Unexpected Encounter with Set Theory in the Wild
How a routine trip to the art museum became a meditation on the empty set. By Evelyn Lamb.
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