A New York Artist Commits to Memory
Viviane Silvera’s artistic career has flourished through her deep exploration of memory, inspired in part by Robert Redford and Kate Winslet.
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ALICE GAUVIN
Alexandria, Virginia
Alice Gauvin is a Contributor to The New York Sun.
Alice Gauvin is a curator, writer, and owner of Alice Gauvin Gallery. She has previously worked in the Media Arts department of SFMOMA. She holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BA from Colby College.
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How Joan Miró and America Were Made for Each Other
A new exhibition depicts a cultural lovefest between the Spanish painter and the American art world, with a Sun critic among the matchmakers.
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Curatorial Chemistry Proves Phenomenal as National Gallery Teams With Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum To Showcase ‘Little Beasts’
If the show’s underlying thesis is that art and science are symbiotic, this exhibition itself is a case in point.
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Many Are the Happy Marriages Between Art and Space at Maryland’s Lavish Glenstone Museum
For anyone familiar with the currents of contemporary culture, particularly in the nonprofit space, the newly-reopened Glenstone must register as a kind of culmination.
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Early Optimism Yields to Undiluted Draughts of Anguish in National Gallery’s Exploration of German Expressionism’s Legacy
The movement is embedded into our visual vernacular, particularly in our collective understanding of horror, pain, isolation and anxiety.
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‘British Vision’ at the Met Traces the Origins of the Picturesque Movement in Art — and a Nation in Flux
The works on view reflect and grapple with a series of seismic changes Britain underwent during the tumultuous years between 1700 and 1900.
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Seemingly Neither Organic Nor Man-Made, Mark Rothko’s Paintings on Paper Resonate as a Kind of Communion
This is your chance to see Rothko’s paintings on paper as he intended them — many of them are exhibited without the protective intercession of museum glass between your eyes and his paint.
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An Uncharted Sea of Pathos, Dorothea Lange’s Depression-Era Photos at the National Gallery Inspire Empathy, Not Pity
She was one of a great generation of photographers whose careers were kickstarted by their work for the feds during the Depression. Sometimes you’ve got to hand it to Uncle Sam.
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