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Teresa Burga

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Doug Ashford at Robert Miller Gallery

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These ’80s Artists Are More Important Than Ever

The influence of the Pictures Generation, a loosely affiliated Reagan-era movement of New York artists, continues to resonate today.

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The Pictures Generation | Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“The famous last line of [Roland] Barthes’ essay, that “the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author,” was a call to arms for the loosely knit group of artists working in photography, film, video, and performance that would become known as the “Pictures” generation.”

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“Left Right Left Right,” by Annette Lemieux, reinstalled upside down at the Whitney in protest of the Trump Presidency.

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Left: I wanted to write you a letter, but you’re never gone Right: Got so close, Ariel Herwitz at Ochi Projects

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Got so close, Ariel Herwitz @ Ochi Projects

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#ArielHerwitz at Ochi Projects

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SARA LINDSAY | QUIETNOISE | CARGO: CHINA TEA CINNAMON TICKING, MIXED MEDIA – CINNAMON, SILK, RAYON, COTTON, WOOL, PAPER, 11 PARTS – OVERALL APPROX 120 X 320 CM   2009

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54hh/r Juicy Fruit, Helena Hernmarck, wool, 41" x 55"

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Helena Hernmarck, Homage to Mary Kahlenberg

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True Colors

Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target

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Jan van Eyck (1390-1441 Flemish) • Detail from Arnolfini Portrait & Edited 1434

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Shirana Shahbazi, [Stilleben-22-2008] from 'Flowers, fruits & portraits' series 2008. Type C photograph on aluminium, 150 x 120cm. 

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Contemporary artists are drawn to tapestries for their tactility, physical presence, and the poetry of creating complex images on a grid

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Create-a Pillar Column, Customized Pillar Column

Our Create-a Pillar Column lets you choose your own combination of patterns, textures, and color.