At 93, Joan Semmel Continues to Assert the Female Gaze
Rather than shrink from the canvas, the artist is still pushing back on prevailing prejudices, and her work today is as confrontational as ever.
Exhibitions
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Trains of Thought: Yunghun Yoo’s Paintings of Connection and Parting at 839 Gallery
With gestural vigor, the artist renders the slowgoing transfers, the phantom platforms, the eastward abyss, the detours to nowhere towns and the long, circuitous routes that must pass through Union Station tracks like blood through coronary arteries.
One Fine Show: ‘Manet & Morisot’ at the Legion of Honor
The exhibition invites viewers to look past old binaries of muse and master and toward a more reciprocal artistic exchange.
