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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” – A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Charles Dickens As an artist in this pandemic, I feel at a great…
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This past Fall my husband and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary in Ireland. In Dublin we were able to see the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s current show, up through February 2016, titled “What We Call Love”. This ambitious show celebrates visual artists’ take on the ever-changing idea of love from the Surrealists to Louis Bourgeois and Jim Hodges. While our ideas of love change throughout time, the feeling is always the same. There were three pieces in…
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This month launches the retrospective of two artists, both enamored with words. Robert Indiana’s “Love” paintings launched a thousand “Love” products in the late 60’s, while Christopher Wool’s au courant fuck you paintings invoke the hater in all of us. The former has his very first retrospective at the Whitney through January, and the latter is at the Guggenheim also through January. Robert Indiana is of Pop Art fame – he launched his career in the thick of the Lichtenstein/Warhol…
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