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Remembering
The essay “Remembering” by Millree Hughes has been removed at the author’s request.
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Invisible Man
Joseph Elmer Yoakum June 20 – July 26, 2019 Venus Over Manhattan 980 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10075 Thirty-five years ago I reviewed an exhibition that attempted to show Joseph Yoakum’s influence on a wide range of artists working … Continue reading
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Tagged Joseph E. Yoakum, Joseph Elmer Yoakum, Joseph Yoakum, Outsider, Outsider Art, Venus Over Manhattan
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Joseph Yoakum: His Influence on Contemporary Art and Artists 1984
Viewing a wall of drawings by the ever astonishing Joseph Yoakum at the Frieze Art Fair this year seemed like a good enough reason to make my next things not on the Internet because I wrote them before the Internet … Continue reading
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Minority Report
Dana Schutz: Imagine Me and You Petzel January 10 – February 23, 2019 Dana Schutz has enjoyed a rather fervent following almost since day one of her career, extolled alike by critics, collectors, artists, and ordinary viewers. Multiple artists have … Continue reading
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Drella on Ice
ArtMonkeyWrench welcomes its first guest contributor, artist Millree Hughes Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again Whitney Museum of American Art Nov 12, 2018–Mar 31, 2019 “To what extent the artist is only a preliminary stage. The world as … Continue reading
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Tower of Power
Hilma af Klint: Painting for the Future at the Guggenheim October 12, 2018 – April 23, 2019 Weeks after viewing the revelatory Hilma af Klint exhibition at the Guggenheim, three thoughts continue to circle around in my mind. First, naturally, … Continue reading
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Judith Geichman 1988 (and now)
Those who follow ArtMonkeyWrench know that I have begun posting reviews and essays from the New Art Examiner and other publications that ceased to exist before the Internet, and so have not been available online. In Chicago to catch the … Continue reading
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Gertrude Abercrombie: Queen of the Chicago Bohemians
Karma, a gallery/publisher on the Lower East Side in New York, presented a major exhibition of Gertrude Abercrombie from August 9 through September 23, 2018. Abercrombie, although well known among artists and collectors in Chicago, is largely unknown outside of … Continue reading
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Wirsum 1984
I’ve been thinking a lot about Karl Wirsum lately. As luck would have it, a selection of his work titled Mr. Whatzit: Selections from the 1980s is currently showing at Derek Eller Gallery through October 8, 2017. What follows is … Continue reading
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The Whitney Biennial: This, That, and the Other Thing
The 2017 Whitney Biennial The seventy-eighth installment, March 17 through June 11, 2017 People have expressed problems with the this year’s 78th Biennial, as one can assume they have since the very first one in 1932. It is, once again, … Continue reading
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The Chimera Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction Museum of Modern Art, New York November 20, 2016 – March 19, 2017 Problem Child Francis Picabia’s art continues to confound. To simply read the reviews … Continue reading
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Unquiet Americans
From Pop to Punk: Peter Saul February 25th – April 25th, 2015 Venus Over Manhattan 980 Madison Avenue, FL 3 New York, New York 10075 Peter Saul, who will be 81 this year, has been happily making trouble for over … Continue reading
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Sundays in the Arbor with Gladys
Gladys Nilsson October 23 – December 6th, 2014 Garth Greenen Gallery 529 West 20th Street – 10th floor New York, NY 10011 How happy I was to walk into Garth Greenan Gallery this past Saturday and find that the exhibition … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago Imagists, Garth Greenen Gallery, Gladsy Nilsson, Hairy Who, Women Artists
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The Alchemist
JEFF KOONS: A RETROSPECTIVE Whitney Museum of American Art June 27 – October 19th, 2014 Rem Koolhaas: “But is there a Machiavellian part of you?” Jeff Koons: “Some of it is there. I guess it is harder to recognize that, … Continue reading
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Tagged Banality, Celebration, Controversial Art, EasyFun, Equalibrium, Koons, Made in Heaven, Retrospective, Whitney Museum
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Dead Enders
“Italian Futurism, 1909 – 1944: Reconstructing the Universe” at the Guggenheim Museum, February 21 – September 1, 2014 “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937” at the Neue Galerie, March 13 – September 1, 2014 Will … Continue reading
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Joan Mitchell x 2
Joan Mitchell: Trees May 15 – August 29, 2014 at Cheim & Read and Joan Mitchell: The Black Drawings and Related Works 1964 – 1967 May 8 – June 28 at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.. Joan Mitchell (1925 – 1992) is … Continue reading
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Fred W. McDarrah: Save the Village at Steven Kasher through March 8, 2014
I first happened on Fred W. McDarrah’s work in Steven Kasher’s booth at AIPAD in 2001, before Kasher even had a public gallery space. Amongst that ocean of photographs, McDarrah’s straight ahead, black and white images immediately jumped out at … Continue reading
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