Grand Teuton
He was a towering giant; he was a humble refugee. During wartime, he suffered a nervous breakdown, but later he savored the good life in Paris and Saint Moritz. He created nightmarish images of torture...
View ArticleLife Was a Cabaret
One horrific war had just ended, pitched sectarian street battles were practically an everyday occurrence, but despite it all, denizens of the Weimar Republic partied hard, and a cadre of great...
View ArticlePulp Valhalla
This mashup of Teutonic bombast and lurid pop culture begins with a dimly lit gallery of sketchy oils in clashing colors and mismatched frames. Mounted on wooden posts like some ersatz Black Forest,...
View ArticleDavid Wojnarowicz’s Universe in a Grain of Sand
Over the years you may have seen graphics, paintings, and films by David Wojnarowicz, and read his writings, but his retrospective at the Whitney coalesces into a sum greater than art. Rarely has an...
View ArticleCoady Brown’s Paintings Fight for the Right to Party
To make something new you must thoroughly understand the past — that way, you can sense when you are pushing into virgin territory. Just 27 years old, Coady Brown has surveyed the landscape of painting...
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