WORLD ART
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‘The Residue of a Performance You Never Get to See’: Gary Simmons Discusses His First Show at Hauser & Wirth with Thelma Golden
As part of the festivities ahead of the opening of the 2022 edition of Frieze Los Angeles on Thursday, Hauser & Wirth hosted two conversations...
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Alt La La: DIY Art Spaces in Los Angeles
You won’t see Ryan Gosling or Emma Stone dance across the Los Angeles gridlock, as they did in the 2016 musical La La Land . Stranded in the LA...
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Fifty-Year Artist Friendship Takes Center Stage in Pasadena Exhibition
In 1969, three artists, all of them mothers and divorcees, met at the University of California, Irvine, where they had enrolled in the school’s...
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Why L.A.’s Night Gallery Doubled Down on Its Hometown
With the 2022 edition of Frieze Los Angeles opening later this week, all eyes seem to be on the City of Angels, with a host of East Coast...
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Ulysses Jenkins Has Been Using Video Art to Confront Racism for Decades. Now, He’s Stepping Into the Spotlight.
During the 1970s and ’80s, as video blossomed into a fully formed artistic medium in New York thanks to works by Joan Jonas, Dara Birnbaum, Bill...
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Brussels Museum Returns Lovis Corinth Painting to Heirs of German Owners
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels have returned a painting by Lovis Corinth to the heirs of its original German-Jewish...
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John Wesley, Painter of Pop-Inflected Paintings with a Bite, Dies at 93
John Wesley, a painter whose bizarre, beguiling figurations were shot through with eros and anxiety, has died at 93. According to his longtime New...
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George Washington University President Censors Artist’s Posters Protesting Beijing Winter Olympics
Last week, George Washington University president Mark S. Wrighton vowed to remove posters by political cartoonist and Chinese dissident...
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Florine Stettheimer’s Independent Spirit Is Revealed in a Thrilling New Biography
In Florine Stettheimer ’s painting Family Portrait II (1933), the work that she considered her masterpiece, the artist pictures herself...
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The Search Continues: “Witch Hunt” at the Hammer Museum and Institute of Contemporary Art
A witch hunt is a public persecution of an individual or group; the term implies a crime hazily described with a slim chance of defense. Silvia...