06/10/2013
Category: Visual Studies
Dispatches from exhibitions around the world.
05/20/2013
Western Exposure
Sebastião Salgado photographs of nature are undeniably beautiful, but they also portray a typical Western gaze.
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04/26/2013
Modernism’s Margins
George Bellows may have died before his work reached its peak, but it’s the fact that he’s “unfinished” that makes him interesting.
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04/09/2013
Picasso in the Future
What does art from the ice age have to do with Picasso? It makes us think — how will we discuss Picasso millennia from now?
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04/02/2013
The Power of the Brushstroke
Lichtenstein’s obsession with the minute details of painting proves there’s more craft to Pop Art than you might think.
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03/08/2013
The Gaze
In Victorine Meurent, Manet found a model that examined the viewer, and thus Manet invented the modern art spectator.
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02/22/2013
Candid Camera
Presenting the artist at work turns painters into performers. They become their art.
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01/18/2013
Into the Canvas
Matisse wasn’t just a painter but an explorer, and each painting was a journey.
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12/12/2012
Artificial Paradise
Prominence of art and fashion
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11/27/2012