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Dian Parker

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Curator Hilton Als and the Language of Silence

"To see, one must possess a language that directs the eyes to what is being perceived," he told Observer.

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Experiencing Matisse’s Joie de Vivre at Fondation Beyeler

“I would like people who are weary, stressed and broken to find peace and tranquility as they look at my pictures,” he wrote in his memoirs.

13.01.2025 6

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The Force of Robert Longo’s Epic Blacks

Longo with a work in progress. Dian Parker There are many black colors, black within black within black. Couple black with disturbing images like...

19.12.2024 3

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Revisiting the Edgeless and All-Encompassing Art of Helen Frankenthaler

For sixty-plus years, Helen Frankenthaler made paintings, prints, woodcuts and sculptures. “My pictures are full of climates, abstract climates…...

20.11.2024 4

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Arshile Gorky Comes Alive at Hauser & Wirth

Arshile Gorky was called the last Surrealist and the first Abstract Expressionist, but his work belongs in neither category. A self-taught artist...

21.10.2024 2

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Albert Oehlen in Beijing: A Jazz Improvisation of Color

In the 1980s, the artist Albert Oehlen, in the throes of German Neo-Expressionism, set out to make bad paintings. He purposefully used muddied...

08.10.2024 3

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In Vermont, a Once-Yearly Exhibition Juxtaposes Contemporary Art With Everyday History

With a population of only 600,000, Vermont seems to exist outside the confines of the United States, as if it were its own country. Living is...

19.09.2024 4

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In Dialogue: The Voluptas of Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher

Volupta was the goddess of sensual pleasure in Roman mythology whose parents were Cupid and Psyche (her name also implies willingness). In Greek...

28.08.2024 4

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Thirty-Five Years After His Death, Salvador Dali Is Still a Phenomenon

Salvador Dali was born in 1904, twenty-two months after his brother’s death, who was also named Salvador Dali. His mother often took Dali to see...

26.08.2024 5

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Everyday Magic: Wayne Thiebaud’s Work Offers a Respite from Worldly Chaos

When Wayne Thiebaud died in 2021 at the age of 101, he’d been painting for 80 years and teaching for 54. When he wasn’t teaching, he was in the...

17.07.2024 3

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