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rate_review review schedule Apr 10, 2026 visibility 6 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

The Robots Were Never the Problem

The New Museum has reopened with 'New Humans: Memories of the Future,' a massive survey featuring over 150 contributors including Hito Steyerl, Precious Okoyomon, and H.R. Giger. Spanning 13 sections across the museum's new 5,500 square-meter extension, the exhibition traces the intersection of art, technology, and the human body from the early 20th century to the present. It juxtaposes interwar European works, such as Hannah Höch’s photomontages and Bauhaus ballets, with contemporary installations like Simon Denny’s sculpture of an Amazon worker's cage.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 9, 2026 visibility 9 link 1 artist

MoMA Survey Shows How Marcel Duchamp Changed the Art Game

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has launched a comprehensive survey of Marcel Duchamp’s work, highlighting the artist's revolutionary impact on the definition of art. The exhibition traces Duchamp's transition from traditional painting to his radical 'readymades,' which prioritized intellectual concepts over aesthetic craftsmanship.

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rate_review review schedule Mar 26, 2026 visibility 9 link 4 artists

Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime review – shipwrecked Ophelia points the path to freedom

A new exhibition of Frank Bowling's work traces the artist's early struggle to find his voice within the rigid artistic categories of the 1960s. The show features paintings from his student days in London, where he grappled with expectations to be either a political 'Black artist' or a formalist 'artist' free from identity constraints, resulting in works that felt derivative of figures like Francis Bacon.

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rate_review review schedule Feb 13, 2026 visibility 6 link 4 artists, 3 galleries

The Spiritual Ear: On Daniel Heller-Roazen’s Far Calls

The article is a critical review of Daniel Heller-Roazen's new book, 'Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies.' It examines the book's central thesis, which explores the historical and philosophical concept of a 'spiritual ear'—the interval between speaking and hearing where language escapes its intended meaning, giving rise to omens, slips of the tongue, and epiphanies. The review traces Heller-Roazen's genealogical investigation from ancient divinatory practices to modern psychoanalysis, highlighting his argument that linguistic accidents hold prophetic potential.

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