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Peter Williams on George Floyd and Art Not in Isolation
I never felt in isolation; there was a life I needed to address.
Lydia Pettit on Henry Taylor’s “I became . . .”
Overall there was chaos in his figure, strokes sometimes lining up with the form, and sometimes going against the logic of the body.
Lavar Munroe on Folkert De Jong and Expansive Painting
Evidence of deconstructing form and then “healing” those breaks was apparent in the yellow and pink adhesive substrates bleeding through the crevasses of incisions.
Recent Articles
Elizabeth Johnson on Celia Reisman
Her aloof houses are challenging, seem to have their backs turned to me, the viewer, and transform me into an interloper.
Lincoln Perry on Frank Auerbach and Marino Marini
This wasn’t a decapitated head, but a self-sufficient object, as autonomous as a meteor.
Kyle Staver on Janice Nowinski
The staccato of the surface gives me the mph of the wind on the beach that day.
Kyle Hackett on Du Bois’ Double Consciousness and the Freedom in Portraiture
I have spent about a decade studying W.E.B Du Bois’ concept of double consciousness: the sense of looking at one’s self through the lens of others.
Barbara Friedman on Merging and the “Extreme Middle”
He makes the “I” out to be “a resting zone … a meeting place.”
Stephen Benenson on Goya and Picasso in Madrid
It was as if the life in them burned up like cellulose melting in a projector.