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Category: Visual Studies

Dispatches from exhibitions around the world.

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03/29/2021

Spot Makers

Italy’s Pre-Impressionist Painters

by John Capista

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06/27/2019

When Gekko Collects Art

The intersection of art and finance

by Stoyan V. Sgourev

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03/11/2019

On the Edge of Art and the Everyday

Reflections on art museums, the impressionists, and Rocky Balboa

by Will Cordeiro

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05/10/2018

Conspiracy Theory As Art

Untangling Sinofuturism

by Scott Beauchamp

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03/08/2018

Mother/Painter

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and her daughter

by Stephen Akey

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01/10/2018

Masters and Madonnas

Seven works, three artists, one gallery

by Charles Molesworth

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01/08/2018

Magritte’s 3.5-Room Apartment

“What’s our excuse?”

by Marian Calabro

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12/11/2017

An Artist’s Search for Cultural Reparation in France

Analyzing an interview with Kader Attia

by Jared Spears

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07/11/2016

In Honor of Faces

Contemporary portraiture at the Whitney Museum

by Charles Molesworth

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04/11/2016

Non Finito

Finding beauty in the unfinished

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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