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Neo Rauch

Epic in scope, enigmatic in content, 120 paintings by Rauch are on view in a dual-venue 10-year retros… Read More

Piero Gilardi

A pioneer of Italy’s Arte Povera movement who left the art world in the early 1970s, Piero Gilardi is … Read More

Michael Huey

Photographing—or, more often, rephotographing—historical source materials, this American-born artist, … Read More

DECODING IMAGES

Mixed Media. Courtesy (recently on view at) James Fuentes LLC, New York.

For her most recent show, artist and Gang Gang Dance singer Lizzi

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Banff

Melanie Gilligan

Walter Phillips at the Banff Centre
August 14 – 24, 2010

Popular Unrest, a new feature-length film by London- and New York-based artist Melanie Gilligan, taps into the collectively insatiable des...

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Kiefer as Occult Poet

Mar 2006 From the beginning, reaction to Anselm Kiefer's work has been polarized. His remarkable early success, and enthusiastic acclaim by museums and collectors, soon produced a backlash. The critical left (Benjamin Buchloh, notably) dismissed him as a commercialy motivated purveyor of a bombastic nationalistic style.

The Dualist: Francis Bacon

Jan 1997 The late Francis Bacon, the subject of a retrospective now on view in Germany, was vehement in his disdain for abstraction and illustration. And yet, the author suggests, these techniques were integral to his presentation of violent imagery.