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Comparing Rick Berry’s expressionist paintings with Damon Lehrer’s exquisitely rendered, classical and contemplative work made me wonder about the expressionist style in general. By this I mean that artistic terrain where the passions, vehemence, or ferocity of the artist so colors the work as to form a powerful but distorting lens through which we see the work.
Read MoreAmong other things, we talked about the art world’s massive hoarding problem.
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Robert S. Neuman used modernism’s interest in abstraction and material accident to shape lively compositions that riffed on urbanization, biblical themes, war, the space race, indigenous rights, mental illness, and other topics.
Read MoreThe snow is gone, daffodils are coming up in Central Park, and there are terrific shows in all of the major New York museums. The three I saw—at the Guggenheim, the Neue Galerie, and the Whitney —all draw on the early part of the twentieth century when artists in Europe and the United States were…
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Steeped in technology, non-traditional public art is about sparking conversations about visuals as well as playing with contemporary aesthetic perspectives.
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These five artists do indeed make their voices heard. They shine as soloists, and their messages are only amplified when they join into a chorus of multi-part harmony.
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Despite their stylistic differences, Robert Barry and Martin Puryear share a similar goal: to include us in their respective inquiries into the nature of mind and liberty, but not do the work for us.
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Yes, Munch and Kirchner were into angst; but they were also artists of great energy, talent, and daring, who found new ways of working and did much to shape the direction and force of modern art.
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“The abuse in the church has very unique and cruel twists to it. And, as one of the oldest continuous patriarchal institutions in the world, looking at the church helps us to reflect upon how many established institutions, including families, help perpetuate and conceal violence throughout society.”
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Fuse Commentary: The Value of Browsing and Discovering That the “Shit Must Stop”
Sometime you go in search of one thing, and you stumble upon something else. And maybe that newly discovered thing is something wonderful.
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