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LIGHT! ACTION! COLOR! Anthony Haden-Guest on The Practice of Andy Moses

LIGHT! ACTION! COLOR! Anthony Haden-Guest on The Practice of Andy Moses -

Andy Moses’ father, Ed Moses, was an artist with the Ferus Gallery, now enshrined as LA’s Cool School, and Andy grew up in the Santa Monica Canyon, looking out onto the ocean.   read more...

Fragile Figures: Beings in Time at 21c Museum Hotel in Nashville, TN

Fragile Figures: Beings in Time at 21c Museum Hotel in Nashville, TN by Joe Nolan -

A sprawling multimedia exhibition in Nashville examines people, power and portraiture.   read more...

A Profile of Destiny Turner

A Profile of Destiny Turner by Vittoria Benzine - New York City

Turner’s greatest passion lies in working with flowers, an area that solidifies her inner conflict into something concrete and literal.   read more...

Nature’s Bookkeeper: How Morel Doucet Maps the Changing Landscape of Miami

Nature’s Bookkeeper: How Morel Doucet Maps the Changing Landscape of Miami by E. Murphy - New York City

It is not just the social history of porcelain that intrigues Doucet, but also the spiritual energy of using something directly from the earth.   read more...

Rachel Klinghoffer at One River Woodbury

Rachel Klinghoffer at One River Woodbury by Alfred Rosenbluth - New York City

For each of her works, the materials lists are essential to conveying the works’ full content to the viewer; the element of self-disclosure is essential to considering Klinghoffer’s work as a whole.   read more...

Jenny Saville at Gagosian

Jenny Saville at Gagosian by Jonathan Goodman - New York City

The title of the show, “Elpis,” means Hope and is taken from an anecdote told by the Greek poet Hesiod, in which Hope is unable to escape from the box Pandora closed after releasing all the horrors it contained.   read more...

Daniel Healey at PBA Projects

Daniel Healey at PBA Projects by India Mandelkern - Los Angeles, California

Citing “popcorn loops,” “jute strands,” and “deeply marled yarns,” the titles of Healey’s works often hint at the upscale furniture and lifestyle catalogs from which he extracts his material.   read more...

Subjugation, Consent, and Active Resistance: To Cast Too Bold a Shadow at The 8th Floor

Subjugation, Consent, and Active Resistance: To Cast Too Bold a Shadow at The 8th Floor by Nina Mdivani -

In a compelling and timely presentation To Cast Too Bold a Shadow at The 8th Floor, the totality of a woman’s existence within patriarchal systems is broken down into components processed and analyzed by artists.   read more...

Warhol: A Life As Art by Blake Gopnik: Book Review

Warhol: A Life As Art by Blake Gopnik: Book Review by Joseph Nechvatal -

The relevant salient point of Warhol: A Life As Art is the unquenchable thirst for refusal of consequence or selectivity or hierarchy.   read more...

Melvin's Way: Computation Considerate Coloring Outside the Line

Melvin's Way: Computation Considerate Coloring Outside the Line by John Drury -

From deep down inside of and secure in his pockets, and concealed there in rubber-band bound bunches, an urgency to share is revealed in Melvin Way’s scrap bits of recycled and mismatched papers and on incongruous surfaces.   read more...

Marela Zacarías: the Mexican Muralist of the Twenty-First Century

Marela Zacarías: the Mexican Muralist of the Twenty-First Century by Isabel Joy Gilmour -

While women are relegated to the natural realm, destined to cultivate the earth as they have for millennia, Rivera finds beauty in technological advancement and the fraught notion of progress.   read more...

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