Painting

KNOW // Painting in Coversation // R.H. Quaytman
Jarrett Moran |
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If paintings can be windows, R.H. Quaytman’s paintings are windows into the artist’s ongoing conversation with herself and with art history.

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SEE // A Tribute to the King of Pop (Art) // Roy Lichtenstein
Sarah Bondoc |
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Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective displays over one hundred popular paintings, drawings, and sculptures from throughout Lichtenstein’s career.

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KNOW // Aluminum Foil and the Human Condition // Teodora Axente
Sola Agustsson |
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There’s something a little creepy about Teodora Axente’s paintings.

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KNOW // The Origins of The Scream
David Schroeter |
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A controversial (and unpopular) origin, threat of destruction under the Nazis, storage in a barn in Norway, and two art heists.

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SEE // The Body Electric // Sascha Braunig
Sarah Bondoc |
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Sascha Braunig’s mind-altering canvases.

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KNOW / / Last Paintings and Seldom-Seen Photographs / / Cy Twombly
Sola Agustsson |
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Part calligraphy, part abstraction, completely stunning.

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KNOW // Capturing the Emotional Spark // Jason Shawn Alexander
Lindsey Grothkopp |
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Artist Jason Shawn Alexander pushes the emotional boundaries of the painted canvas.

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KNOW // Toxic Beauty // Frank Moore
Sola Agustsson |
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Virulently surreal paintings inspired by an artist’s struggle with HIV.

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KNOW // PBS Painting Icon Bob Ross, Remixed
Jarrett Moran |
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“Believe that you can do it, because you can do it.”

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KNOW // Cats Reenact Art History
Georgina Wells |
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Cats have been big in contemporary art recently—now they’ve taken on the art historical canon as well.

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SEE // The Logic and Magic of Color: Josef Albers at the Morgan
Spencer Nelson |
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In an exhibition spanning four decades, the Morgan Library showcases Josef Albers’ Homages to the Square. The German, a shamus of color and its capabilities, took cues from pre-Colombian, Bauhaus and mid-20th century American art to craft a powerfully unique form of expression.

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Garfield, Elmo, and Big Bird Meet Mondrian and Gaudi
Manish Vora |
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Adam Green is just thirty-one years old and has already lived nine lives.

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