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Ronnie Landfield

His may not yet be a household name, but Ronnie Landfield is one of the best abstract painters in America. Since the late 1960s, Landfield’s paintings have been defined by billowing stains of color,...

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Janet Werner

Through painterly and conceptual ingenuity, Janet Werner has created a visual language to explore the multiplicity of the self. Her portraits revel in their provenance, explicitly referencing both...

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Antonietta Grassi

Overlaying candy-colored, geometric prisms with glimmering networks of lines that weave through and around them, painter Antonietta Grassi could easily be taken for the love child of Josef and Anni...

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Wanda Koop and Oli Epp

It’s hard to tell if Wanda Koop’s paintings are deceptively&#—or disturbingly&#—simple. Rectilinear portals, Xs, and bar codes float on watery horizons limned with light. These symbols don’t so...

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Staged Mothers

Ara Osterweil on Alice Neel

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ALCHEMICAL ROMANCE

Ara Osterweil on Daïchi Saïto’s earthearthearth

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Sylvia Safdie

For decades, Montreal-based artist Sylvia Safdie has walked, retracing through her peregrinations the lost terrain of her childhood in Lebanon and Israel. As she meanders, she collects stones, fungi,...

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Stan Douglas

Conceptual photographer Stan Douglas is acclaimed for mining the counterfactual potential of the image to create historical reconstructions that reflect upon the present’s fraught relation to the past....

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Rebekah Goldstein

Certain kinds of geometric abstraction yield to the lure of the shaped canvas. Rebekah Goldstein, the San Francisco–based painter known for her exquisite formalism, has now joined the ranks of artists...

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Moyra Davey

For photographer, author, and filmmaker Moyra Davey, autobiography is a form of intertextuality. In some of the most insightful videos made in the last decade, abundant literary references map personal...

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Kaveri Raina

Corporeal forms and abstract shapes collide on unprimed, earthen fields in Kaveri Raina’s breathtaking paintings. The first time I saw them, in a 2019 group show at New York’s Luhring Augustine, their...

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GLAMOUR, GLORY, AND GONE

On the art of Marisol

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BAD ROMANCE

The female predators of recent cinema

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