Discover MFA Programs in Art and Writing
Michel Auder, Untitled (BOMBpacifier), 2016, edition of 3. Courtesy of the artist and Martos Gallery, New York and Los Angeles.
An important retrospective collects nearly one hundred artworks.
Paintings and sculpture that express strength and vulnerability.
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Featuring interviews with Ryan Trecartin, Shezad Dawood, Sadie Benning, Wendy Ewald, Trevor Paglen, Jacob Appelbaum, Ivan Vladislavić, Álvaro Enrigue, Christopher Sorrentino, Vijay Iyer, and Yorgos Lanthimos.
Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it.
Kara Walker
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