A Master of California Cool Heats Things Up at MoMA
Although often associated with Pop Art, Ed Ruscha is hard to pin down, less faithful to a movement than his own idiosyncratic vision.
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ERIK DEN BREEJEN
New York, New York
Erik Den Breejen is a Contributor to The New York Sun
Erik den Breejen is a painter, writer, and occasional musician based at Brooklyn, New York. His work has been exhibited at galleries including Miles McEnery and Freight + Volume. He also teaches color theory. erikdenbreejen.com
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Optical Delight With a Punch
Balance, invention, and playfulness are on display alongside weightier content in summer exhibitions at East Hampton.
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Gallery-Going: The Tide Is High
At Nino Mier, the summer group show to end all summer group shows.
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Wagner’s Ghostly Seafaring Tale of Love and Redemption Returns After Covid Cut Short Its Debut
Wagner never could get over the idea that in order for mankind to be saved a woman needed to pay the price. From ‘Tannhäuser’ to ‘Götterdammerung,’ his works’ motto could well be ‘It ain’t over ’til the heroine dies.’
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Going ‘Under Cover’ To Find Not-So-Hidden Subtext in the Golden-Era Illustrations of J.C. Leyendecker
Yet the work’s intent resists easy categorization. Take, say, the artist’s most famous creation, the iconic Arrow Collar Man, who became so popular among women that the fictional character received its own fan mail.
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‘A Mosaic, Not a Blend’: A New Portrait of Mahler’s Marriage
Music critic Joseph Horowitz’s first novel is an alchemical quest — to bring memories and accounts from dusty archives to life, and he largely succeeds.
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Eternal Damnation à la Mode
The Met’s new production of Mozart’s perennial ‘Don Giovanni’ presumably aims to draw parallels between the mythical sex-offending Don and our own epoch, yet has a side effect of highlighting this very contrast.
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