Essays
Go deeper. Read what curators, artists, and others have to say about the art they make, study, collect, and restore.


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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Reticulárea cuadrada, 1971

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Rebecca Belmore, Tarpaulin No. 1, 2018

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Illusion and Fantasy in Sigmar Polke’s Untitled (2003)

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Grace McCann Morley and the Modern Museum

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Richard Mayhew, Delusions, 2000

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Grace McCann Morley: Defending and Diversifying Modern Art

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Rauschenberg, with Affection

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Kay Sage, Midnight Street, 1944

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Kai Althoff, Untitled, 2013

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Leonora Carrington, The Kitchen Garden on the Eyot, 1946
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Michelle Stuart, Spiral Notebook, 1975

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Noah Purifoy, Drum Song, 1966 and Rags and Old Iron II (After Nina Simone), 1989

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Nam June Paik: Kinship, Collaboration, and Commemoration

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The Grain of Pop in Richard Artschwager’s Portrait of Holly

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Frank Smigiel on Today Is Not a Dress Rehearsal (Judith Butler)

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Spanning Time and Place in Joan Mitchell’s The Bridge

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Bright Life and Warm Ground in Joan Mitchell’s Girolata Triptych

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Exchange Rates: 20 dirhams or 1 photo?

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Self-Portrait as Anonymous Artist

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Designing the Digital Self

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The Art of the Oxymoron: The Vernacular Style of Walker Evans

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Sean McFarland

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K.r.m. Mooney

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Liam Everett

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Lindsey White

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Alicia McCarthy

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Wide Open Publics: Tracing Grace McCann Morley’s San Francisco

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Desire in Diaspora: Emily Jacir

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Rudolf Frieling on The Refusal of Time

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New Work: Nevin Aladağ

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Bruce Conner, THUMB PRINT, April 26, 1965

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Richard Artschwager, Table and Chair

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Richard Artschwager, Building Riddled with Listening Devices (Alpha) and (Beta)

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Richard Artschwager, Triptych III

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Richard Artschwager, Horizon

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Ursula von Rydingsvard, hej-duk, 2003

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David Hammons, Untitled (dung), 1983–85

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New Work: Rodney McMillian

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New Work: Kerry Tribe

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Merging Feeling and Object in Joan Mitchell’s Poem Pastels