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Painting Al Dente

November 09, 2020

Italo-Brazilian artist Laura Pretto Vargas makes abstract and figural paintings that explore feelings of vulnerability, happiness, energy, and sexuality. Using mostly acrylic …

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Fantastic Voyage Lands in Red Hook

November 06, 2020

One of the art projects is to reconcile us with the world, not as it is, but as “our starving …

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Art of Contested History

October 27, 2020

Joining the Madison Avenue Art Walk this Saturday, October 23, with an art critic friend, Michèle Cone, I found that …

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Chelsea Explodes in Color

October 21, 2020

We can all use an escape these days. Especially in New York City, which emerged as the first hotspot for …

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Gigi Mills ‘The Small Space’

October 16, 2020

When Covid hit, Santa Fe artist Gigi Mills did what many of us did: she slowed down. A painter and …

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Repetition as Returning to the Met

September 29, 2020

This piece by Mary Ann Caws, a distinguished scholar, poet, and translator and also, importantly, a teacher, mentor, …

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Fire on High: The Pyrographic Art of Carlo Proietto

August 26, 2020

Italian artist Carlo Proietto creates graphic imagery through the age-old technique of pyrography. Using a heated metallic point, the artist …

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STAND UP—Call from Arts to Better Future

August 25, 2020

All of a sudden, there is a rush of things art to look forward to. Some, like The Metropolitan Museum’s …

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Painting the Lockdown Time

August 17, 2020

Like so many artists today, lifelong New Yorker Margaret Zox Brown found herself searching for new inspiration during the lockdown. With Manhattan …

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Lari Pittman Mediates Colonial Violence with Seductive Painting Techniques

July 30, 2020

Los Angeles-based artist Lari Pittman first received broad exposure in the late 1980s, partly in the wake of an …

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London Art Galleries Slowly Stir Back to Life

June 19, 2020

London announced that a handful of its galleries would reopen on June 15. As cities across the world begin to …

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Not in My Backyard: Interview with Maureen O’Leary

June 17, 2020

Most new businesses experience traditional first year challenges such as developing their brand, facilitating sales and dealing with competition. In …

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Dorothea Lange Points the Way for Today’s Activist Image Makers

June 12, 2020

One byproduct of museums’ closure during the COVID-19 pandemic is that some exhibits have extended their running time by dint …

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It’s a Wrap: R.I.P. Amazing Christo

June 06, 2020

The awe-inspiring art journey of Christo (b. Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, June 13, 1935, Bulgaria; d. May 31, 2020, New York …

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Michelangelo Lovelace Finds Dignity and Grace in These Fraught Times

June 04, 2020

One of the most shocking things the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed is the cavalier attitude that some people have expressed …

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Ognjen Simic, 1965-2019

November 17, 2019

The Fine Art Globe lost a family member today. Our great writer, Ognjen Simic, has died by suicide, at age …

Museums

Woman! Rachel Feinstein Poses Deep Questions Through Sculpture

December 26, 2019

She is masturbating while lying on her belly, bigger than body size, sensitive to every brush of the skin, enjoying …

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The 2019 Whitney Biennial – Catalyst for a Political Stance

July 29, 2019

This past week Eddie Arroyo, Christine Sun Kim, Augustina Woodgate, and the collective Forensic Architecture joined Korakrit Arunanondchai, Meriem Bennani, …