Monday, January 31, 2011

George Condo's 'Jean Louis’ Mind' (2005)

 

Fantastical, precarious portraiture 
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Kurt Schwitter's 'Merzbau' (1923-1936)


Totally integrated space
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Ben Vautier's 'Total Art Match Box' (1965)

 

The universal anarchist
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Gita Lenz (1910-2011)


Rest in peace
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Thutmose's 'Bust of Nefertiti' (1345 BC)


Demanded for repatriation
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Dennis Oppenheim (1938-2011)

 

Rest in peace
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Mona Lisa' (1983)


Answer to Warhol
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Andy Warhol's 'Mona Lisa' (1963)

 

Modernity's cultural leveling
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Marcel Duchmap's 'LHOOQ' (1919)


 

Against 'high art'
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Leonardo da Vinci's 'La Joconde' (1519)

 
Woman of wonder
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Henry Fuseli's 'The Nightmare' (1781)

 

I love puns!
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Barry McGee's 'Waterfall' (2004)

 
Enormously poetic graffiti 
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Lynda Benglis' 'Artforum Ad' (1974)

 

A little one-upsmanship 
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Pat Steir's 'Another Nearly Endless Line' (2010)

 

Traditional linear flow
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Jeff Mills' 'Metropolis' (2000)



Epic, ecstatic electronica
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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Peter Burke's 'Janus Head' (1999)


Simultaneously past/future
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

On Kawara's 'January 1, 1984' (1984)


One distinct moment
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