“Monet/Mitchell” Shows How the Impressionist’s Blindness Charted a Path for Abstraction
Monet's vision helped free him from some of painting's conventions, and this freedom prompted Joan Mitchell and her peers to forsake them more emphatically.
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Signifying Power: Oscar Murillo at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Can the physical exertion of painting large-scale abstractions speak to the agitation of political protest?
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Two Hundred Pounds of Desire: Ryan Patrick Krueger at Monaco
Vintage photographs of coupled men join pages from queer magazines and scholarship in Ryan Patrick Krueger's archive of gay intimacy, which is laced with uncertainty and desire.
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Mountains and Glue: “Assembly Required” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
An exhibition of participatory art suggests that viewers step up to the work (or at times step on it), but flattens the context that gives such gestures meaning.
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Foreign Policy and Megadeth: José Guadalupe Garza at High Low Gallery
Using the language of popular culture, the artist interrogates the fraught relationship between the United States and South America.
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Road Hard: Kit Keith at William Shearburn Gallery
Depicting women resembling herself as much as Louise Brooks, Kit Keith paints both surface and depth, individual and society, defendant and judge.
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Showing What Has Been Forgotten
Buzz Spector has played a key role in the conceptual art of the Midwest, but a revisionist retrospective presents his work as social critique.
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan Penetrates an Inaccessible Prison Using Sound
Though Abu Hamdan's work is undoubtedly compelling, it's worth noting the dangers of uncritically accepting the sort of evidence he presents, especially given the current climate of fake news.
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Some Go Up: Lola Álvarez Bravo at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Lola Álvarez Bravo was not only a pioneering photographer; she was also an early exemplar of la chica moderna, the modern woman.
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