Art Review | 'The American-Made Alphabet': America the Beautiful and the Altered, From on High
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The Boston photographer Margot Balboni presents 26 striking color photographs of the American landscape, made over the last two decades, in the form of an alphabet.
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Black and white portraiture dominates âIsland to Island: Inspired Portraits,â the Hillwood Art Museumâs major fall show.
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The paradoxically beautiful, seamless 30-year survey of his work at the Guggenheim Museum catches many of our inharmonious countryâs discontents and refracts them back to us.
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The Ashcan artists were a lively bunch of provincial rebels who created Americaâs first true avant-garde, and their chapter in the book of art history is still fascinating.
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Anytime a designer examines American culture, right down to the red, white and blue bunting stripes, interests me. Much of Thom Browneâs spring 2008 collection will seem preposterous to people. And if this is your first glimpse at his small-sized silhouette, I can only imagine that you think the fashion world indeed a strange place. [...].
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A landmark exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York tackles surprising contemporary issues.
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Daniel McGinnâs âHouse Lust: Americaâs Obsession With Our Homes,â raises several provocative questions that strike at the covetous soul of Americaâs culture.
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The Metropolitan Museum's show of ancient Chinese art is not of a trophy display of objects found but that of a meticulously edited essay on history learned.
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âChuck Close,â about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
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The new addition to the Akron Museum of Art underscores how hard it can be to strike a balance between daring architecture and enjoyable spaces for viewing art.
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The illustrator Norman Rockwell has often been mocked for creating an America that never was and never will be. But Kevin Rivoli, a photojournalist in upstate New York, will tell you thatâs just not true.
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James LongleyÂs haunting, oblique film, ÂIraq in Fragments,Â presents a collage of images, sounds and characters in an intimate, partial portrait of an unraveling nation.
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Reviews of the Alexander Wang, Alice Roi, Bruce, Duckie Brown, John Bartlett and Karen Walker fall 2007 collections.
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A lovely new show at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum introduces us to the full sweep of this Venetian artistâs career, from the early etchings of antiquities to his eccentric furniture designs.
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The sculptures at the Baltimore Museum of Art illuminate how, through an emphasis on process, distortion and distillation, Matisse created a new immediacy in sculpture.
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Itâs been a bountiful year for the kinds of art finds â or at least the publicizing of them â that make fans of âAntiques Roadshowâ weep with envy.
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Mr. Jenney is a painter of remarkable technical skills whose feeling for color, texture and form can stand up to the best of the American landscapists that he has studied over the years.