Contemporary Art and Culture
The Hessel Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College has mounted a lavish retrospective on the work of artist and art dealer Betty Parsons. The first such exhibit in 25 years, it covers her career from beginning to end.
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After the Impressionists blew open painting and reset Paris, rearranging everyone’s eyes, one might assume the dust would take a minute to settle. But almost immediately, a cluster of kids at the Académie Julian decided to reroute the whole thing again. Among them, Édouard Vuillard. To get to Vuillard, one must start with Paul Sérusier and Paul Gauguin standing by a lake in Brittany.
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