Minimalism
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Serge Alain Nitegeka | Configurations in Black
Marianne Boesky Gallery 509 West 24th Street Through March 8, 2025 Deploying the visual language of minimalism and geometric abstraction, Serge Alain Nitegeka reappropriates modernism’s formal preoccupations with color, line, and space to examine the lingering effects—both personal and political—of forced migration. Drawing on his own history as a refugee, Nitegeka erects—at times quite literally—barriers,…
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Land Art is making a comeback
Earth art, also referred to as Land art or Earthworks, is largely an American movement that uses the natural landscape to create site-specific structures, art forms, and sculptures. The movement was an outgrowth of Conceptualism and Minimalism: the beginnings of the environmental movement and the rampant commoditization of American art in the late 1960s influenced ideas and…
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Celebrating Mary Lovelace O’Neal at the Whitney
Mary Lovelace O’Neal (b. 1942; Jackson, MS) is featured in the upcoming Whitney Biennial—curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli—opening March 20. The three paintings by Lovelace O’Neal included in the exhibition—one from her Whales Fucking series (1979 – early 1980s), one from her Two Deserts, Three Winters series (1990s), and one from her newest body of work, The Mexico Works (2021–23)—highlight…
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PERUVIAN ARTIST TERESA BRUGA DIES
A pioneering figure in Latin American Conceptualism, Teresa Burga (b.1935, Iquitos, Peru – d.2021, Lima, Peru) made works that encompassed drawing, painting, sculpture, and conceptual structures that supported the display of analytical data and experimental methodologies. Born in Iquitos, Peru in 1935, Burga studied at the School of Art Catholic University of Peru in Lima and contributed…
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