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However you view this gesture, it felt great, apt, and went viral.
More vividly, it demonstrated how much meaning a new context can give to a particular work.
First at the Spring/Break Art Show with a pair of huge concrete feet.
Chuke shines a searchlight into arts future and current politics with ambition, ease, and love.
Watch for this artist.
Jane Kaplowitz at Fortnight Institute.
Erin Riley at PPOW
Paul Bloodgood at White Columns.
Martha Edelheits Flesh Walls: Tales From the 60s at Eric Firestone Gallery.
Frank Walter at Hirschl & Adler.
Native American Ledger Drawings at Donald Ellis Gallery, Frieze New York.
Another year of great shows at the American Folk Art Museum under visionary director Dr. Valerie Rousseau.
Santiago Ramon y Cajals The Beautiful BrainatGrey Art Gallery.
Outsider Art Fair and Fountain House Gallery continuing great workbreaking down the wallsbetween insider art and so-called outsider art.
Jim Carrey for his drawing, word-text concoctions, and out-there activism on Twitter.
The bad optics of Met Admissions.
Kudos to the Drawing Centers hiring of Laura Hoptman, who might wake up this sleeping small giant.
Mathew Wong at Karma gallery.
Huma Bhabhas multi-faced bronze sculptureWe Come in Peace, a creating-destroying godon the roof of the Met.
Christoph Buchel; eight prototypes; Trumps Border Walls as Monument to Racism and the Long American Night.
Cy Twombly Drawings 19512008 at Larry Gagosian.
David Wojnarowicz, History Keeps Me Awake at Night,at theWhitney Museum of American Art.
Charles White at MoMA.
Arthur Jafa at Gavin Browns enterprise.
Nick Mauss: Transmissions at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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