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Say It with Flowers—or Gourds, Goats, Fur Cups, or Fried Eggs
With the breast-and-penis-like relief Ringaround Arosie, 1965, Eva Hesse was discovering her “weird humor.” ©ESTATE OF EVA HESSE/HAUSER & WIRTH ZíœRICH LONDON/THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK...
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Uncovering Matisse
Matisse worked on Bathers by a River in 1909–10, returned to it in 1913, and completed it in 1916–17. ©2001 SUCCESSION H. MATISSE, PARIS/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ART INSTITUTE OF...
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Leo Steinberg, a giant among art historians, died on Sunday in Manhattan, age 90. At the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) awards ceremony last night, MoMA curator John Elderfield told...
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Shaping de Kooning’s Legacy
Excavation, 1950, from the MoMA exhibition. ©2011 THE WILLEM DE KOONING FOUNDATION/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, MR. AND MRS. FRANK G. LOGAN PURCHASE PRIZE FUND,...
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Driven to Abstraction?
Pink Angels, ca. 1945, oil and charcoal on canvas, 52" x 40". FREDERICK R. WEISMAN ART FOUNDATION, LOS ANGELES Some artists stagger under the weight of a retrospective, their work appearing too...
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Jackson’s Other Actions: Pollock’s Sculptures Resurface
From some angles they look like sun-bleached flotsam and jetsam. From others, they evoke bodies, or bones, or, as the catalogue at Matthew Marks Gallery suggests, ancient dolmens, or tombs. Imbued with...
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Title Fights: How Museums Name Their Shows
Got a show to curate? Need a title for your exhibition? You might look to the Internet and click on Rebecca Uchill’s Random Exhibition Title Generator, which will give you such plausible-sounding...
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MoMA’s New Curatorial Guard
As the Museum of Modern Art gears up for its next expansion, the 85-year-old institution has just finished a curatorial changing of the guard. The recent announcement that Martino Stierli would replace...
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Centuries of Studio Visits: John Elderfield on ‘In the Studio,’ His Essay in...
Jacek Malczewski, Melancholia (Melancholy), 1890–94, Oil on canvas, 54 ¾” × 94 ½”.COURTESY GAGOSIAN GALLERY/MUZEUM NARODOWE W POZNANIU, POZNAŃ/FUNDACJA RACZYŃSKICH When John Elderfield stepped down as...
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The Big Fake: Behind the Scenes of Knoedler Gallery’s Downfall
Ann Freedman and her defense team. ILLUSTRATION: VICTOR JUHASZ Domenico and Eleanore De Sole live most of the year in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Domenico is originally from Calabria, and he grew up...
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