“A world without color would seem dead,” she said in a 1972 interview. “Color, for me, is life.”
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The bracing, confident, Whitman-esque art of Stuart Davis
“Everything I have done since,” the artist later said, “has been based on that eggbeater idea.”
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Searching for the invisible man with Ralph Ellison and Gordon Parks
An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago brings the text and the photographs for “Harlem Is Nowhere” together for the first time since 1948.
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At the Met, a journey through the riches of Hellenistic art
Alexander the Great created a new world of encounter and multiplicity.
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A Big Bet for the Met: A new museum of contemporary art opens in New York.
A new museum of contemporary art opens in New York.
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The Met makes a big bet on modern and contemporary art
The contemporary focus marks a deep shift, like the moving of tectonic plates under the Metropolitan.
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The Rapture of Seeing: In memory of Ellsworth Kelly
Kelly’s work abstracted from visual experience only to return us to it.
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Fruits of the Earth: Koki Ruiz and an altar of corn for the pope
Koki Ruiz and an altar of corn for the pope
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Southern Exodus: The migration paintings of Jacob Lawrence
The migration paintings of Jacob Lawrence
