Editorials
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‘I Smoke Because My Parents Do Not’: Raymond Pettibon @ The New Museum
by Aimée Tian
Pettibon’s counterculture narrative of America’s dark underbelly is not for the faint of heart.
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I arrived at the New Museum on a rainy Wednesday morning, disheartened to find that the Sky Room was closed to visitors on weekdays. Towering above the nitty-gritty of the Bowery, the museum…
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The Unique Concept of Station 16: An Interview with Emily Robertson
by Louise Kronenberger
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As an art lover, who has never even thought of opening his/her own gallery? Well, that’s what Emily Robertson did, with the help of her two associates: Carlo de Luca and Adam Vieira. Station 16 is the first art gallery dedicated to street art and graffiti in Canada,…
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If It Ain’t Baroque, Don’t Fix It
by Catherine LaRivière
Ah, millennials. One article will say that we’re working too hard, the next will explain how under-prepared we are for the real world. We’ve reduced our cooking habits to minute-long videos and our communication with each other and the outside world has been filtered down through various…
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Looking at Ren Hang’s Art
by Sylvie Schwartz
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In writing this editorial, I want to begin with the caveat that I have never formally studied Ren Hang, nor am I even well-rounded in my knowledge of contemporary Chinese art and culture more generally. I…
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Was Cy Twombly a Hottie? An Interview with Jessica Campbell author of Hot of Not: 20th-Century Male Artists
By: Jacqueline Hampshire
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via Jessica Campbell.
In 2016, artist Jessica Campbell added an essential literary work to the art historical canon. Through captivating text and visual analysis, Campbell fills one of the gaping holes in the history of art. For too long male artists of the 20th century have been…