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December 15, 2019 Seeing works by Congo the chimp takes us from wild aesthetic conjectures to sobering ethical dilemmas around animal agency, art ownership, and basic rights of living creatures. Tim Keane Threaded through this collection is an optimistic belief in Surrealism as a world-changing political and poetic practice. Marcella Durand I cannot think of another person who has given us such intimate portraits of everyone from Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, and Jasper Johns to Eartha Kitt, Toni Morrison, and Patti Smith. John Yau SPONSORED As a displaced refugee, Freud knew he would always be something of a stranger to himself, but how much would he ever wish to know of himself? Michael Glover The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, an extraordinary exhibition examining the under-appreciated, fugitive medium and its history. Stephen Truax Mokgosi is as interested in the discourse around the figures in his paintings as in their representation — not that the two could ever exist separately. Alan Gilbert With ATOMIC, her new body of work, Patricia Satterlee pitches us into abstract apparitions of heaven and hell before pulling us back to earth. Thomas Micchelli Taaffe is able to bring the exterior, visible world as well as the interior imagined world into his paintings. To me, this is what distinguishes him from his contemporaries. John Yau This week, Williamsburg goes BIG, Bette Midler’s museum tweet, US politicians and food, how the British damaged the Parthenon marbles, the longest walk on earth, and more. Hrag Vartanian Get the latest book reviews more from Hyperallergic
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