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Blake Gopnik is a former contributing critic to The Daily Beast and writes on art and design for a wide range of publications. He previously spent a decade as chief art critic of The Washington Post and before that was an arts editor and critic in Canada. He has a doctorate in art history from Oxford University, and has written on aesthetic topics ranging from Facebook to gastronomy.
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Abstraction Colored by Race
The Color BlackSam Gilliam works with form and hue, but we always see history in it.

Our Kids' Purgatory
Waiting in VainGreg Miller catches school children as they wait for their bus to come in.

Computer-Art Fossils
Form FeedIn 1969, Frederick Hammersley was already playing with CPUs and printers.

A Martian's Eye View of Modern Art
SurrealisticismTomoo Gokita paints worlds no one has seen.

Guys Gone Tame
CheesecakeJeanette May's photos show men at ease in their bachelor pads.

Liberace Would Have Balked
TchotchkesAt the Met, jewels by JAR may be tacky junk, but they tell us about ourselves.

Beauty in Bondage
Queer CultureRobert Mapplethorpe used old forms for forbidden content.

Masterpiece Smackdown: Warhol's 'Empire' vs. Marclay's 'Clock'
Two endurance movies go head-to-head
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