Archive for December, 2020
By: Art Forum on Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
The multivalent figure of the broken window—emblem of both thoughtless neglect and mindful disobedience, of a certain species of policing and righteous resistance to it—presided over “Orange Chapel,”
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
In a 1966 interview on French television, Pier Paolo Pasolini speaks of a phrase from Provençal poetry. “The nightingale sings “ab joy,” for joy. But ‘joy,’ in the Provençal language of that time, had
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
The press release for Isabelle Albuquerque’s solo exhibition “Sextet” at Nicodim Gallery opens with a quote from David Wojnarowicz: “Inside my head I wished for years that I could separate into ten
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
TO CHALLENGE THE CONVENTIONS and criteria of the collectible object (painterly pretenses, skills, singularity, rarity, commodity status, and exchange value, among others) was one of Conceptualism’s
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Although Archie Rand’s long career as a painter has shown many—and sometimes seemingly incompatible—aspects, he has become best known (or perhaps, best underknown) for presenting Jewish themes on a
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO THINK OF Andy Warhol when pondering Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination, 1968–69, currently tucked away in the Museum of Modern Art’s new Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
The vertical text-based painting Just a Shot Away, 2015, commands the entrance hall to Deborah Kass’s inaugural solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta, a mainstay of Chicago’s West Loop for nearly twenty years.
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
“I DANCED MYSELF out of the womb . . . I danced myself into the tomb,” quavers Marc Bolan in the 1971 T. Rex song from which “Cosmic Dancer,” a retrospective marking the fifteen-year anniversary of
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
STAR EARTH SKY WATER MOON SUN, reads Nancy Holt’s The World Through a Circle, ca. 1970, a sheet of white paper on which these typewritten words—read in either direction and starting in any location—form
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