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The screening of “Aggro Dr1ft” at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, New York. Photos by Mike Vitelli. Courtesy of EDGLRD. Context is everything, and filmmaker Harmony Korine is certainly building a lot of it around Aggro Dr1ft, the film he first premiered last fall at the Venice Film Festival. Since then, Korine took the film on tour, …

DJ Sets and a Nightclub Screening Can’t Hide How Boring Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft Is Read More »

Matthew Barney, Sanguine Atlas, 2024. Photo David Regen/Courtesy the Artist, Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Regen Projects, and Galerie Max Hetzler Making his way through his new studio a few weeks back, Matthew Barney stopped to inspect a strange set of alchemical dumbbells and tried to describe the elements of stress, vulnerability, and frailty he …

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Rachel Martin at the Gochman Family Collection, where she is artist-in-residence and co-curator. Weston Wells for ARTnews In one of artist Rachel Martin’s earliest memories, her mother had asked her to draw the face of a bug. “I was about three years old, and I remember her saying to me, ‘Show me how it feels …

Rachel Martin’s Humorous Art Filters Indigeneity and Femininity into Sly Drawings Grounded in Centuries-Old Techniques Read More »

Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews/Getty Images In 1924, amid the wreckage of the Great War, French poet André Breton railed against the values of the world as it was and could never again be, one ruled by realism and rationality. “The mere word ‘freedom’ is the only one that still excites me,” Breton wrote in his …

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Visitors at the Camille Claudel exhibition at the Getty Center. Cassia Davis/Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust To look upon Camille Claudel’s Torso of a Crouching Woman is to be shocked by it. Though the figure lacks a head, arms, and left knee, she is stolidly centered. The burnished bronze figure writhes, pulling the skin …

In New Exhibition, Curators Fashion a New Story for Sculptor Camille Claudel that Centers Her Prodigious Talent Read More »

Frank Stella, 2001. The Washington Post via Getty Images Was Frank Stella a sadist? More than once, I’ve wondered that while standing before his 1959 painting Die Fahne hoch!, a rectangular abstraction that features four black forms, each of which are demarcated by unpainted lines of white that pulsate toward the center. The painting, for …

Frank Stella’s Greatest Legacy Was as a Master Sadist Read More »

In their research, curators including art historian Marianne Mathieu also came across evidence contradicting the belief that all Impressionist painting was executed swiftly.