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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Hakim Bishara |Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang |Bridget J. Quinn |Hannah Bonner
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. So you think you know Mucha? Printmaking? The ravenous classism of the art world? This month, our editors and contributors invite you to question what you think you know.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
hyperallergic.com | Bridget J. Quinn
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. SAN FRANCISCO — Spotlight: Kathleen Ryan, currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s new downtown location, is a small show that packs a big visual punch.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Bridget J. Quinn
Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism for as little as $8 per month. Become a Member SAN FRANCISCO —Tamara de Lempicka at the de Young Museum is the first major US retrospective of the Polish-born artist, who lived and worked in Russia, France, the United States, and Mexico in some of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Bridget J. Quinn
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us In a new biography by Michael Peppiatt,20th-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti gets the rock star treatment. The cover of Giacometti in Paris is comprised almost entirely of the artist’s craggy and pitted face, as timeless and veristic as a Roman bust, and as eminently cool as Keith Richard.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Bridget J. Quinn
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Bridget J. Quinn
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
nobhillgazette.com | Bridget J. Quinn
There’s a famous New Yorker cover by Saul Steinberg from 1976 called “View of the World from 9th Avenue” that’s still widely reproduced today. It depicts a map of America that begins fulsomely in Manhattan — and quickly peters out from there. It’s New York as center of the knowable universe, and it captures both the overweening pride of that worldview and its absurd myopia.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Bridget J. Quinn
Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard by Bridget Quinn, published by Chronicle Books on April 16 and available online and in bookstores. Do you know the term chiaroscuro? Maybe you remember it from an art history course you took once, or some half-forgotten book. Or maybe you know it well. It’s a word that feels good in your mouth. Chiaroscuro.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Bridget J. Quinn
In Painting Her Pleasure: Three Women Artists and the Nude in Avant-Garde Paris, author and art historian Lauren Jimerson cleanly dismantles one of the enduring myths of 20th-century modernism: that ground zero in advancing the avant-garde was the female nude — as painted in Paris by two men.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Bridget J. Quinn |Steven Hale |Amorina Kingdon
Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-GuiardArt historian Quinn (Broad Strokes) presents a deliciously inventive biography of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749–1803), an overlooked portraitist for the family of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette who “never wrote her memoirs, or... personal letters to loved ones” yet revealed plenty in her paintings, pastels, and drawings.
