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From the A.i.A. Archive: John Ashbery on Jane Freilicher
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"Creation—fresh, unassuming, a little awkward still with some of its folds not yet shaken out," John Ashbery wrote, is Jane Freilicher's subject... Read more
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"'Muffy' is about adolescent and childhood sexuality. The works come out of my own early sexual thoughts, feelings and inclinations, which were greatly influenced by pop culture, the Internet, my home life and my dreams.".. Read more
"For more than 30 years now, I've been investigating the dislocation of reality, and how that's affected culture, and how that culture then affects us.".. Read more
An exhibition slated for this spring aims to add Jersey City, N.J., to the itinerary of art tourists visiting New York during spring art fair week... Read more
Adam Pendleton is an artist based in New York City and Germantown, N.Y. In his work in various mediums, as Tom Williams wrote in A.i.A. in 2011, "he gives form to a complex exchange between art and racial politics, which the respective histories of these fields so often ignore.".. Read more
Simon Schama talked to A.i.A. recently about the Jewish tradition of visual imagery, locating "Jewishness" in Mark Rothko, and the idea that beauty itself can be a mitzvah... Read more
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Now Bush will have his very own solo show, at Dallas's George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Among the subjects of his portraits are Russian President Vladimir Putin, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his father, George H.W. Bush... Read more
With her 2½-month-old Chihuahua puppy sleeping in the crook of her arm, Greenbaum, 60, spoke with A.i.A. during a studio visit about good vs. bad paintings, material experimentation and how to incorporate sculpture into her practice... Read more
A show opening this week at New York's Jewish Museum riffs on the groundbreaking 1966 exhibition "Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors" at that same venue. The '66 exhibition, organized by curator Kynaston McShine, was the first American museum show to focus on Minimalism, and included artists such as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd and Anne Truitt... Read more
I'm from New Orleans, and vogue is a very East Coast thing. My first time seeing it was at a b-boy party in New Orleans; someone from New York was there and he vogued. When I moved to New York in 2000 I lived in an all black queer collective—by default I met a lot of people in the ballroom scene... Read more
The first time I thought seriously about the figure of Pierrot was after watching Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise (1945). I had just started doing stand-up comedy in addition to painting, and at that point I was doing a lot of self-reflection and writing... Read more
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