Last year, while I was researching an article about Loren MacIver, I came across work by Perle Fine, a dedicated painter who showed with MacIver […]
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Trisha Donnelly: The real thing strange
Contributed by Talia Shiroma / The drawings in Trisha Donnelly’s show at the Drawing Center are a succession of curving …
John Kelly: The body is never abstract
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Anne Wehrley Björk: Where sharks once thrived
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Laura Newman: Flatness and the illusion of depth
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Peter Plagens’ portals and vortexes
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / At Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Peter Plagens’ bracing new abstract paintings don’t so much as invite …
Su-Mei Tse, composer and orchestrator
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George Morrison, Native American modernist
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Before going to see “The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York” at the Met, I …
Jane Haimes: Rehabilitating geometric abstraction
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