The article discusses various art exhibits showcasing the critique of contemporary issues like capitalism and celebrity culture. Highlighting works by artists such as Aaron Gilbert, Weegee, and a group exhibition focused on women artists, it emphasizes the ongoing fight for visibility in the art world. It also previews the reopening of the Frick Collection, offering an opportunity to engage with historical art in a luxurious setting. The featured artists challenge traditional narratives and seek to find spaces for genuine expression in their works.
[Gilbert] creates composite images of city life in the domestic spaces of familiarity, and the scenes themselves act as doorways or portals that focus cosmic or divine energy into the object in front of us.
[The artists'] renderings of women - here, nude, in moments of intimacy and discomfort - serve as rejoinders to the artists' invisibility in a male-dominated art world.
A tight compression of flowers at the center of the still lifes gives way to a riot of patterning that opens the compositions, propelling them forward, landing directly on the nervous system.
There are "self-made men," and then there are self-made legends: artists who mythologize themselves so thoroughly that th
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