Marina Perez Simão systematizes nature’s motifs and distills them into interlocking volumes and color bands in paintings as cerebral as they are sensuous.
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Roxanne Jackson’s Fantasia Under the Sea
Maybe Jackson’s ceramic “monsters” are just creatures who look like they shouldn’t belong — and in her world-building Jackson has made a place where they do.
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Required Reading
This week: snarky dance criticism, a Super Bowl performer’s protest, Barbara Kingsolver builds a rehab center, Chappell Roan starts a trend, and did Rupi Kaur’s poem age well?
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Why Do All My Hinge Options Look Like Guys From Old Paintings?
As it turns out, men have been posing with fish for hundreds of years.
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Historical Maps to the Heart Help Chart Your Way to Love
Why bother with the so-called Gulf of America when you can dip in the Bay of Bliss or Cape Content?
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Alexis Rockman Paints Humanity’s Final Season
Taking on Thomas Cole’s epic The Course of Empire, the New York artist asks if we’ve all had a good run.
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The Drag Queen Artist Who Helped Make the East Village Interesting
From a large Wigstock banner to more intimate self-portraits, Tabboo!’s art sparkles anew in two contemporaneous exhibitions.
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Master Printmaker Krishna Reddy Never Stopped Learning
The Indian-American printmaker’s experimental, collaborative spirit yielded a new method for multicolored intaglio printing and inspired a generation of artists.
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Stephanie H. Shih’s Time Capsules of the Heart
She rescues objects from the garbage bin of mass-produced memory and reimagines them as art.
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The Opulent Beadwork of Black Masker Demond Melancon
The Louisiana-based artist, known for his hand-beaded portraits and Mardi Gras Indian suits, is the recipient of this year’s 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.
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The Singular Wit of One of the New Yorker’s First Women Cartoonists
Barbara Shermund’s single-panel cartoons, drawn with a seemingly off-the-cuff fluidity of line and expression, came to define the magazine’s sense of humor.