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History repeating itself? Three major US shows look at 1930s art and political climate
Exhibitions of Grant Wood, Precisionism and interwar Europe draw parallels with today
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National Gallery of Art show integrates the outliers
Outliers and American Vanguard Art in Washington, DC, makes clear that schooled and self-taught artists have never been that far apart
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Sittow survey in Washington, DC, helps celebrate 100 years of Estonian Republic
Court artist had an impressive roster of sitters including Mary Rose Tudor
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Time to look: Laura Owens’s self-reflective paintings demand considered attention
Visitors should not rush through the Los Angeles artist’s mid-career survey at New York’s Whitney Museum
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Why the process of painting never ends
The US artist Brice Marden takes a new tack in his latest works, on show at Gagosian in London
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The man without a face: Jimmie Durham at the Whitney Museum
Questions about identity abound in the travelling retrospective of the American artist’s work
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Pace Gallery remembers Elizabeth Murray with show of her 1980s work
The late painter’s shaped canvases, including some museum loans, are the subject of a survey in New York
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Reviews in brief: our take on the top shows in Pacific Standard Time LA/LA
The Getty Foundation-backed series of exhibitions across Southern California this year looks at the cultural crosscurrents between Latin America and Los Angeles. Here, we offer capsule reviews of some of the most significant exhibitions
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Three to see: Los Angeles
Lygia Clark’s spray gun painting is complemented by a survey of radical Latin American female artists
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How migratory birds helped an artist tap into Kosovan cultural heritage
Petrit Halilaj has made 500 sculptures based on images of Neolithic artefacts
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How New York made Mondrian truly Modern
The artist was brilliant long before he came to the city, but his US works are his greatest achievements
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Bibliophiles rejoice: New York Art Book Fair returns this weekend
Hundreds of exhibitors are due to take part and a slew of events are planned
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Mapping out Pacific Standard Time's second act
How do you organise an event with more than 70 exhibitions?
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Artist brings 50 US flags from 50 states to New York
For his travelling project, Mel Ziegler exchanged old flags—from private homeowners, a National Guard office and even a casino—for new ones
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Museums in Houston reopen after Hurricane Harvey
The Museum of Fine Arts will offer three days of free admission
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How Pacific Standard Time plans to reframe film and video history
A group of exhibitions and programmes to artists from across the Americas
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Art critic Michael Fried’s new poems dwell on past love, childhood—and his predilection for high Modernism
The poet draws parallels between making sculpture and writing verse
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Pioneering American artist Daniel LaRue Johnson dies
His work is currently on show in Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern
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Tate Modern chronicles the rise of Black Power in post-war America
Tate Modern chronicles the rise of Black Power in post-war America
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Getty reimposes the rule of time
Chronological displays opening in 2018 at the Getty Villa will supersede themed galleries
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A comprehensive Piet Mondrian survey opens in the Hague
The exhibition includes early works that bring a new perspective on the Dutch painter
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Giuseppe Penone unveils Rome’s first permanent installation of contemporary art
The luxury fashion brand Fendi commissioned the new work, installed outside its flagship boutique
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Marciano Foundation unveiled to the Los Angeles public
The private museum is lodged in a former Masonic temple
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Hal Foster named next Mellon lecturer at the National Gallery of Art
The historian will discuss how artists invented new forms after the brutality of the Second World War
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A life’s work: Ellsworth Kelly’s last paintings
Matthew Marks shows the late artist's final works
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Winner winner chicken dinner: Bridget Donahue awarded Frieze Frame Prize
The installation of drawings, collages and sculptures by Susan Cianciolo was inspired by a visit to a Milan eatery
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MoMA collection takes a Paris vacation
Some works, like Andy Warhol’s 32-part Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), have never before been shown in France
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Pop goes the yacht: Roy Lichtenstein’s designs for America’s Cup sail to Vermont
As well as the artist’s models, drawings and the mermaid-themed vessel itself, the exhibition includes the premier of a documentary film about the historic project
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Frick shows that collecting is a scholarly subject
Center for the History of Collecting marks its first decade with book release and reveals ambitions to do more work with living collectors
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Shows set to let textile artist and printmaker Anni Albers shine
The wife and fellow Bauhaus refugee of Josef is at the forefront of two forthcoming exhibitions, including a full-scale survey of her work planned for 2018 at Tate Modern
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The persistent disbeliever: on Donald Judd's writings
A new book of his collected essays reveals the ferocity with which he questioned almost everything
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Albers Foundation celebrates second anniversary of Senegal project
The foundation's centre hosts cultural and agricultural efforts in a small village
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Snapshot from a brighter moment: the 2017 Whitney Biennial reflects a pre-Trump America
Many of the works in this year’s exhibition respond to the country’s social tensions, but the pressing question about what art can do during a crisis remains unanswered
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National Gallery of Art delves into the woods with its next Mellon lectures
Alexander Nemerov will give six talks on representations of the American forest in the 1830s
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‘Only ideas can change the world’: an interview with the Zero group’s Heinz Mack
The artist, who turns 86 in March, reflects on new work—but how little his ideals have changed—ahead of presentations in St Moritz and New York
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Building anew: how Constructivism sought to remake the world
In the centenary year of the Bolshevik Revolution, exhibitions survey the art of the Russian avant-garde and put its radicalism in context
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Sean Scully’s grand finale opens in China
Abstract artist enjoys critical acclaim with two career surveys in as many years
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A bridge to something better: on artist-run galleries in mid-century New York
A show at the Grey Gallery looks at a time when artists could afford to run their own spaces