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Now Dig This! and the Ken Johnson Controversy: A Case For Pluralism in 20th Century Art History

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Ken Johnson’s controversial review of Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, currently on view at MoMA PS1 through March 11, has become nothing less than an art world scandal, sparking a deluge of denouncements from readers, an … Continue reading →

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Wade Guyton: X is to Y as

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

Wade Guyton is, in many ways, an art historian’s artist. He engages with the questions that get us going: questions of aesthetics, medium specificity, and the iconography of modernism itself, not to mention the very directness with which he prompts … Continue reading →

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Melissa Chiu on ‘Generational Ruptures’ in Chinese Contemporary Art

Posted on December 11, 2012 by

Dr. Melissa Chiu gave a lecture titled “Art + Politics in Chinese Contemporary Art” as a part of the Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series on November 27th, traveling the few blocks between the IFA and her role as Museum Director … Continue reading →

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Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World at El Museo del Barrio, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Queens Museum of Art

Posted on November 26, 2012 by

One would be hard-pressed to think of a more ambitious exhibition than Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World, which opened this summer at El Museo del Barrio, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Queens Museum of Art. … Continue reading →

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Moved by the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins,[1] the Artist Takes Notes – thoughts on three current, un-visitable London exhibitions [2]

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

“[…] he mistook the curtains of the window of his room for a canvas, and he kept describing what he was painting: the colors, shapes, and shades.”[3] On broad empty surfaces, marks begin to show—indicative of fragility, a sense of … Continue reading →

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