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1 day ago |
news.artnet.com | William Van Meter
Yesterday was the first scorching day of summer, and Eden Deering, the director of P·P·O·W gallery, was putting the final touches on a new group exhibition inspired by Lana Del Rey. “Every artist in the show is united in their devotion to Lana,” she said. “Everyone is a Lana fan and is inspired in their work.” The show is also about a lot of other things—art and artifice, sincerity and spectacle. “A lot of the work in the show and a lot of the artists deal with things that are fake,” she continued.
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2 days ago |
news.artnet.com | William Van Meter
Opening today is the American debut of “Constellation,” the largest exhibition to date of the revolutionary photographer Diane Arbus. This Park Avenue Armory presentation is especially poignant, as Arbus was a New York local and did much of her work here, sourcing her subjects from every stratum of the city’s society—many heretofore ignored by the mainstream. The exhibition offers new perspectives into Arbus’s universe of humanity.
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1 week ago |
news.artnet.com | William Van Meter
There are experiences in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s extraordinary life that she refers to as “BCR moments.” Whether through fate, serendipity, happenstance, calamity, greater power, or her sheer force of will or talent, these experiences turn out to be decisive and reverberate. The seismic one was in 1958, when she was 19 and attending the American Academy in Rome. On a dare, she packed her bag that night and the next day was on a freighter to Egypt.
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1 month ago |
news.artnet.com | William Van Meter
Last week, the artist Tanda Francis walked through a gallery door at the Met and stumbled into a world she helped bring to life. “Suddenly I saw the work I had poured so much thought into, now multiplied several times and dressed in stunning diverse looks… appearing like different people but with that very familiar face,” she recalled.
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1 month ago |
news.artnet.com | William Van Meter
Last week, the artist Oscar Yi Hou was admiring a 3D self-portrait by Juliana Huxtable. The piece hadn’t yet been hung—it rested on the floor, still wrapped in plastic—but Huxtable’s figure was already commanding: thigh-high crimson boots, reptilian skin, and outstretched bat wings. “It’s about power and hybridization,” Yi Hou said.
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