Articles Tagged with #art
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The American Artist
Go Away
Artist colonies are mysterious places. Available only to a select few, supposedly teeming with alcohol, affairs, and creative hoodoo. But the rumors aren’t true—they just lack detail. Scenes and lessons from three residencies.
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Love Me Til It Hurts
Glossy paintings of young women in Iran inspired by Playboy magazines the artist found in her father’s closet
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Landscapes With Flying Objects
Portraits of jets at play in the Italian Alps, children posed like adults, and adults bobbing in the sea.
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Let There Be Light
Large-format abstract photographs that use light to create celestial shapes we recognize—in some cases because they began as Christmas lights.
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Twenty-First Century Nudes
Vivid, fun, and surprising photographs where sex is mysterious and playful. Some images may not be safely viewed in an office environment.
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Uncanny Kingdom
Our film scholars and Wes Anderson watchers, along with movie critic Michelle Orange, evaluate the filmmaker’s latest release, Moonrise Kingdom, where people get struck by lightning as a matter of course.
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The Infinite Lawn
Eye-catching landscapes don’t need glitter to produce mystery. Beautiful monochrome paintings that capture the vastness of sea, sand, and sky.
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Lower East Sides
Portraits that find Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1980 and 2010 showing different faces—blight, renewal, and the pursuit of hipsterdom—and also many things that (thankfully) never change.
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Chiquita Banana
Paintings crammed with matriarchs, wrestlers, and girls wearing bananas on their heads—where quite a lot more is going on than first appears.
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The Lighthouse
Using a darkened home, precisely placed mirrors, and the occasional judicious cut in a wall, light becomes sculpture.
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Artist for the Trees
Intricate designs found in large-scale, labor-intensive relief prints made from the cross sections of trees and lumber.
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Little, Big
Irresistible paintings don’t always need giant frames. An interview with the painter who electrified this year’s Whitney Biennial.