Before AI, Two Japanese Artists Took the Human Hand out of Gestural Brushstrokes
They subverted the Abstract Expressionist notion that gestural abstraction was deeply human.
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Prisms of Influence: “Slip Zone” at the Dallas Museum of Art
Connecting Modernism to Mono-ha to Minimalism, this exhibition suggests that postwar abstraction involved more international exchanges than single vectors of influence.
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Sword Fights on Canvas: Georges Mathieu at Perrotin and Nahmad Contemporary
He anticipated performance art, inspired Gutai, and motivated Europe's response to Abstract Expressionism—but Georges Mathieu has mostly faded from view.
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From the Archives: Japan’s Gutai Group
Where does play end and art begin? The interest in such questions, largely fostered by the 2013 exhibition “Gutai: Splendid Playground” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, has now prompted a resurge…
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Velvet Ropes and Mirrors Set the Tone at Elegant ADAA Opening
Some of the worst weather of the winter didn’t keep collectors away from the Seventh Regiment Armory building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side last night for the opening of the ADAA’s annual…
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The California 1930s Frat-Rush-Week Esthetic: On the First American Gutai Show, in 1958
Gutai, the loose group of Japanese artists known for their work from the 1950s, is having a moment in America. Kazuo Shiraga, the abstract painter known for using his feet and hands in lieu of…
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All Together Now: Artists and Crowdsourcing
In galleries, public spaces, and online, artists are orchestrating pieces that can only be completed by you
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How to Speak Artspeak (Properly)
A new guide decodes 146 essential buzzwords, movements, and trends of the postwar art world. How many do you know?
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Swimming Upstream, McCaffrey Fine Art Expands to Chelsea
Even as rising rents drive Chelsea galleries to eye real estate in other parts of Manhattan, the Upper East Side gallery McCaffrey Fine Art is expanding into 9,000 square feet at 508 West 26th Stree…
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