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THE SUN IS RISING

Petah Coyne’s majestic installation Untitled #1541 (Two Halves of the Same Soul) (2023) at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts addresses a question posed by curators Deejay Duckett and Jodi Throckmorton for their exhibition Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America.

Stacey Goergen

June 13, 2023

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COLOR IN SEARCH OF A SUBJECT

In 1957, shortly after Jane Freilicher and her husband Joe Hazan rented a home on Flying Point Road in Bridgehampton, the painter began composing abstracted landscapes, straying from the smaller more

Stacey Goergen

May 5, 2023

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NEVER NOT A SUCCESS

If the art industry press has paid less attention to Richard Hunt than to other Chicago artists (e.g., Kerry James Marshall , William Pope L., Theaster Gates, Gladys Nilsson, Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg, etc.) or other Black American artists who work in sculpture

Rob Colvin

February 23, 2023

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MERIT OR MESSAGE

The exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast at the MET is based around Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s sculpture Why Born Enslaved!, modeled in 1868

Stacey Goergen

February 21, 2023

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AMERICAN SELF-PORTRAIT

The Whitney Museum passed on purchasing Edward Hopper’s Room in New York when the painting was first shown, soon after it was made,

Stacey Goergen

February 2, 2023

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HOLY GHOSTING

For almost 20 years, the artist Theaster Gates has been resuscitating a neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side called Greater Grand Crossing by purchasing, renovating,

Stacey Goergen

December 21, 2022