Arts Post Archive: Blake Gopnik
2010 Pop Quiz: The Year in Arts
How well do you remember the cultural highs and lows of 2010? The Post's critics have combined forces to test your knowledge of artists from Van Gogh to The Situation.
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| December 17, 2010; 4:47 PM ET |
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Artist asks to withdraw work from 'Hide/Seek' exhibit to protest video removal
In protest of what he calls "censorship" of a controversial video, Canadian artist AA Bronson, one of the pioneers of gay-themed contemporary art, on Wednesday asked for a major work of his to be withdrawn from the Smithsonian exhibition, "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," which explores imagery by and about homosexuals.
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Blake Gopnik
| December 16, 2010; 9:18 AM ET |
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Protestors banned from Smithsonian after playing video on iPad
On Sunday at around 1 pm, 37-year-old Washingtonian Mike Blasenstein hung an iPad around his neck, held some flyers in his hands -- and promptly got banned, or so he believes, from the Smithsonian Institution. That iPad was playing a...
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Blake Gopnik
| December 6, 2010; 2:22 PM ET |
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Gopnik's Daily Pic: A gay idyll by Demuth
The latest feed from my morning musings about art and objects at www.blakegopnik.com. (National Portrait Gallery) A lovely watercolor called "Dancing Sailors," painted in 1917 by the gay artist Charles Demuth and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection....
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Blake Gopnik
| December 1, 2010; 7:31 AM ET |
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Gopnik's Daily Pic: Baldessari still in mind
The latest feed from my morning musings about art and objects at www.blakegopnik.com. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) A few frames from the 13-minute video called "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art," shot by John Baldessari in 1971....
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Blake Gopnik
| November 30, 2010; 11:45 AM ET |
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Gopnik's Daily Pic: The Pic's 100th Birthday
The latest feed from my morning musings about art and objects at www.blakegopnik.com. The Pic turns 100 (days old) today. Each time I think there's not another image lurking in my mind, something that interests me pops up. I look...
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Blake Gopnik
| November 26, 2010; 8:12 AM ET |
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