John Rapko


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Friday, April 14th, 2017

Narrowing the Field: The Fate of Genius in the Age of the Readymade

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A review of Art in the Making by Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson

Paul Kos, Aspen, 2009. Video projection on paint on canvas. 6 x 8 inches. Courtesy of Gallery Paule Anglim
Monday, August 29th, 2011

Quasi Una Fantasia: A Summer Trio From San Francisco

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Paul Kos and Jim Melchert at Paule Anglim, Shahzia Sikander at the Art Institute

Edouard Manet, The Railway (The Gare Saint-Lazare), 1873. Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W Havemeyer.
Sunday, July 31st, 2011

“Enchantment and Malaise”: Michel Foucault on Manet

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Publication of a 1971 lecture in Tunis, reissued in time for the recent exhibition in Paris

Michael Craig-Martin, An Oak Tree, 1973. Glass, water, shelf and printed text, dimensions vary. Private Collection
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

The Arts Died with Dada: Roy Harris and the Great Debate About Art

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In depth review of the semiotician’s pointed pamphlet on the end of art criticism

Diana Thater, RARE 2008. 16 LCD monitors, DVD player, DVD, and existing architecture, 204 x 264 inches. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery, New York. All photographs by Pablo Mason.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet at the Berkeley Art Museum

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By design, the show is a revealing jumble, expressing something of what it has come to mean to respond to a place (or site, region, niche), and something of what it can no longer mean.