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Attending Intently to You
by Kirsty Bell
The British artist Phil Collins seeks to dispel the corrosive effects of media on society and private lives.
Wholesale Memories
by William S. Smith
When Gretchen Bender (1951-2004) premiered her multichannel video work Total Recall (1987), she beat Paul Verhoeven to the punch by three years.
Ab-Ex Dada
by Sue Taylor
At New York's Stable Gallery in 1953, Marcel Duchamp examined a wooden container studded with iron spikes and containing four loose stones.
Italians Come to America
by Rachel Cohen
In its early years Art in America cultivated a taste for Italian art—and fostered a new market for old masters—through scholarly articles by connoisseurs like Bernard Berenson.
The Unquiet Ghost
by Colin Westerbeck
The late Garry Winogrand, chronically unable to edit his own photographs, left his career—and 6,500 rolls of unexamined film—in the hands of curators who have shaped his legend and now print his negatives.
In the Studio: Erica Baum
by Steel Sillman
Known for photographing found words and phrases, the artist discusses her two decades of amalgamating language with images, and anthropology with art. |