Archive for October, 2019
By: Dallas Art Dealers Association on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:56 pm
In its third year, NorthPark Center’s Luxury Ambassador program boldly merges the worlds of fashion, art and philanthropy, by way of celebrating the city’s top influencers and the nonprofits they support. NorthPark’s chosen few embody a rare-air kind of style — a droup that contains equal parts fashion sense, civic leadership and larger-than-life personality. Here, …... | Read More
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Commanding one of the yawning depots of Dia:Beacon—a Nabisco box-printing factory turned postindustrial culture palace—the hollow sheet-metal and cardboard polyhedrons of Charlotte Posenenske’s
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
THE 2016 United States presidential election coincided with a surge in threats against vulnerable communities—an FBI report cited a nearly 20 percent increase in hate crimes the following year. The
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
THE EIGHTH ISTANBUL BIENNIAL was titled “Poetic Justice.” Sixteen years on, the latest edition might as well have returned to that title. Roughly a month before the opening, a press release from the
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
In Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s 1945 essay “Cézanne’s Doubt,” the philosopher used the painter’s work to propose that an individual’s process of applying paint to canvas could serve as an index of the artist’s
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
A DECADE AFTER HIS DEATH, Robert Colescott is still mostly known for his paintings of “the old masters in blackface,” as he once lamented. His pastiches—among them Eat Dem Taters, 1975 (take that,
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Living coral, a “life-affirming” orangey-pink, is the color of the year, according to Pantone. Emerald dominated 2013, turquoise reigned over 2010, and 2016’s homecoming queen was rose quartz (also
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
There was much to commend in “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists,” a survey of one thousand years of art by Indigenous women through 125 works. The exhibition didn’t rely on the usual curatorial
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
As a writer, I know what twisting myself into knots over a word is like, though I rarely do this over a letter of the alphabet. But for an artist who might consider script a kind of drawing, the act of
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