From the Archives: A Look at Chicago’s Budding Art Scene, in 1955, by Museum Pioneer Peter Selz
Their essay focused on five artists who shared a "deep concern with the human image."
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Then and Now: The War Comes Home—Artists and the Vietnam War
The exhibition "Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975" is now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
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From the Archives: A Look at Leon Golub’s Early Work, in 1955
His paintings "present insoluble conflicts communicated with profound insight and understanding."
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“Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago”
The first work displayed in the landmark “Monster Roster” exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art is Leon Golub’s four-foot-square lacquer-on-masonite Siamese Sphinx II (1955)…
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Leon Golub’s death in 2004, at the age of 82, coincided with the full flowering of the privatized guerrilla warfare that he caustically portrayed in his most celebrated paintings of the 1970s and ’80s…
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Morning Links: ‘My East is your West’ Edition
Edward Snowden’s bust, removed from Fort Greene last month, has been released from police custody and handed over to Postmasters Gallery for a show starting tomorrow. [Blouin Artinfo] A…
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Let It Bleed: The Frightening Scene on the Met’s Roof
A history of violence resonates in Imran Qureshi's massive rooftop painting at the Metropolitan Museum, and in other shows by Benny Andrews, Nancy Spero, and more
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Reminding Us Not to Be Silent
Upon being introduced to Nancy Spero's work, "one quickly realizes this is an artist that attracts attention and commentary where it wasn't always so," wrote Jon Bird, a long-time scholar of her work…
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In Memoriam: Nancy Spero
Often using mere paper as a medium and a powerful pictorial vocabulary of her own invention, Nancy Spero spun tales of ferocious, heroic women.
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