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For Joseph Stella (1877 – 1946) and many of his contemporaries, the central icon of American cultural achievement was the Brooklyn Bridge, which had been completed in 1883. He first depicted the bridge in 1918 and returned to it throughout his career.
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Maja Ruznic’s paintings often combine difficult subject matter with seductive color and a sense of spirituality. The artist, who spent time in an Austrian refugee camp after fleeing the war Bosnia, has said that  The Past Awaiting the Present / Arrival of the Drummers (2023) “looks at how multiple things can be true at the same time: birth, violence, pain, suffering, joy, and music.” Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Maja Ruznic, The Past Awaiting the Present/ Arrival of the Drummers
xhairymutant Embedding Study 1 (Photos By Gail)
These works by artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst are part of a project focused on training the data behind artificial intelligence (AI) models, opening new possibilities for its use.
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Trade (Gifts For Trading Land With White People) (1992) is the first painting, in which Native American artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith depicted a trade canoe, a subject she frequently returns to. Here, Smith uses the painted canoe as a vehicle for examining the history of exploitation in this country, which she underscores with collaged photocopies of old photographs, zoological illustrations, and clippings from newspapers and magazines – many from the publication of her reservation, Char-Koosta News.
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The Death of American Spiritualty (1987) by David Wojnarowicz (1954 – 1992) contains a number of the artist’s recurring symbols and imagery densely layered in a single composition. With its radically juxtaposed motifs that suggest different temporalities — from geological landforms to emblems of the American West and the Industrial Revolution — the mythical tableau depicts destruction proliferating alongside technological advancement and geographic conquest.
Photographed in The Whitney Museum in NYC.