Abstract Painter Joan Mitchell Gets Her Day in the Sun
September 10, 2021
Joan Mitchell, celebrated in a major retrospective that just opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, may be the best Abstract Expressionist you’ve never heard of. Born in 1925 to a wealthy family ...
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Huge Diego Rivera Mural Gets a New Home
July 9, 2021
A gigantic mural by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, Pan American Unity of 1940 (top image, detail), has taken up residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It’s an astonishing collection of scenes, ...
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How Nam June Paik Turned Video Into Art
May 12, 2021
The boxy TV sets emerge from a thick bed of live ferns like gigantic mushrooms on a primeval forest floor. A video program plays simultaneously on all 49 TVs: disco dancers rocking out to “Devil ...
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