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Wright Morris: Abandoned House, Ed’s Room, and Robin Hood
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75 Reasons to Live: Lynn Hershman Leeson on Tina Modotti’s Convent of Tepotzolán, Mexico
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75 Reasons to Live: Janet Bishop on Watercolors by schoolboys, ages 10-16, from the Chirodzo Art Centre, Southern Rhodesia, 1957
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75 Reasons to Live: Michelle Tea on Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait
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75 Reasons to Live: Johnny Ray Huston on Diane Arbus’s Xmas Tree in a Living Room, Levittown, L.I.
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Judy Chicago prepares for a dinner party with female heroes
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Philip Guston: Mysteries of the working process
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Piet Mondrian: Into abstraction
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Claude Cahun: Queer Surrealist
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Walter Gropius in the (Bau)haus
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Lindy Roy’s retail concept for Vitra
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The lines of Piet Mondrian
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Eva Hesse and gender
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Sol LeWitt on Eva Hesse’s “junky” materials
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Eva Hesse’s installations: Never the same twice
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Conservation nation: Eva Hesse’s Aught
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Eva Hesse: Shaped by environment
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Jasper Johns doesn’t “settle” in his art
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Ansel Adams’s moon in Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
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The suspense of Ansel Adams’s famous moonrise
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Ansel Adams on protecting the environment
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Ansel Adams visualizing the final print
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Yosemite and the work of Ansel Adams
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Riding the waves of Ansel Adams’s Surf Sequence
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Painting Diego Rivera’s frescoes
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Andy Warhol makes a silkscreen
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How Zen poems influenced Brice Marden’s paintings
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Josef Albers’s Tenayuca: From pyramid to painting
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Climbing with Ansel Adams and friends
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What is Pop art to Andy Warhol?
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At the Blue House with Frida and Diego
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Jenny Holzer’s public “clichés”
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How Edward Kienholz started scavenging for materials
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Because he says so: Jasper Johns is not a Dadaist
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The illusion of Marcel Duchamp’s readymade Fountain
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Frank Stella: Rebuilding painting
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Frank Stella and the art of the protractor
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David Smith and the search for “accidental beauty”
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Louise Bourgeois: Unlike family, geometry never fails you
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Vija Celmins began with recognizable surfaces
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Frank Stella on “relief painting”
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Willem de Kooning on painting women
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David Smith on color
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Elizabeth Murray: Finding the artist inside the painting
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Frank Stella describes “art worth making”
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Frank Stella on Jackson Pollock: The hand, the eye, and the body
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Frank Stella: Creating canvases in new shapes
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Louise Bourgeois’s work isn’t always feminist

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Breakability: The essential quality of pottery for Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois became an artist to fight back

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Gender roles according to Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Nevelson: Architect of light and shadow
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Louise Nevelson shares her sculpture studio
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Matthew Ritchie: Abstraction is metaphysical
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Matthew Ritchie: Art is not an equation
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Matthew Ritchie on the game of chance
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Why Susan Rothenberg is hard on herself
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Susan Rothenberg on her artistic process
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Vija Celmins wants you to open your heart and eyes
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Jackson Pollock’s drip-painting process
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Jackson Pollock: Paintings have a life of their own
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Richard Serra throws molten lead inside SFMOMA
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Glenn Ligon confronts slavery
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Glenn Ligon on “the idea of a black man”
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Glenn Ligon’s self-portraits fall apart
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Judy Chicago: It’s a man’s world
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Judy Chicago’s “cunt cheerleaders”
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Robert Gober poses as a bride
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Robert Gober’s sneaky drag performance
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Rubber, lead, and steel: Richard Serra’s materials
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Richard Serra’s “risk-taking masculinity”
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Richard Serra’s Surprise Attack
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Richard Serra: On trial for Tilted Arc
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Frida Kahlo’s evolution
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John Baldessari sings Sol LeWitt
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Richard Diebenkorn: Seeing the world in abstraction
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Richard Diebenkorn’s portraits of fellow Marines
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Richard Diebenkorn: Inspired by natural light
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Richard Diebenkorn: “The sky took the place of the ocean”
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David Park’s rejection of Abstract Expressionism
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David Park’s surprisingly “convincing” figures
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David Park at home
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David Park believed art should be troublesome
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David Park’s love of jazz
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David Park: California vs. New York
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The Windhover project: The wings of Nathan Oliveira’s mind
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Time-lapse of a Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing installation
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Formal differences: Frida Kahlo vs. Diego Rivera
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Diego Rivera: The gateway to Mexican culture and politics
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Frida Kahlo: Feminist and Chicana icon
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Nathan Oliveira: Abstract Expressionism lets “the paint define the painting”
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Nathan Oliveira: Painting is beautiful and essential
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Nathan Oliveira confronting a creative “stone wall”
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Nathan Oliveira on inspiration
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Robert Rauschenberg to John Cage: “Be careful and drive straight”
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Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, and a bottle of Jack Daniels
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Robert Rauschenberg believes two is better than one
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Robert Rauschenberg on his most personal works
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Robert Rauschenberg in Pelican
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Bill Viola at SFMOMA
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Richard Diebenkorn’s collaborative printing process
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Dorothea Lange on the Great Depression in San Francisco
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Betye Saar on adding mystery in her work
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The mysticism of Betye Saar
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Betye Saar’s particular solitude
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Betye Saar blends the mystery of history
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Dorothea Lange: The camera teaches people how to see
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Dorothea Lange: From snapshots to documentary
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Edward Weston: Nature is “the great stimulus”
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Imogen Cunningham on earning a living
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Imogen Cunningham on enjoying the tedious work in the darkroom
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Imogen Cunningham: Why people like flowers
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Imogen Cunningham: Driven by curiosity
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Imogen Cunningham: The obstacles of portrait photographers
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Joan Brown finds success in surprise
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Joan Brown: Life-size art
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Joan Brown escapes to Alcatraz
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Rediscovering Jay DeFeo’s The Rose
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Jay DeFeo and Wally Hedrick’s Christmas parties
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Jay DeFeo’s The Rose: The enormous painting that was “almost alive”
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Robert Arneson on the “seductiveness” of clay
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Robert Arneson’s portraits have nothing to do with ego
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Robert Arneson on the “spiritual presence” of Peter Voulkos
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Sargent Johnson on surviving the Great Depression