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Julia Friedman
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Julia Friedman is a regular contributor to Artforum and the author of Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism: Alexei Remizov’s Synthetic Art (Northwestern University Press, 2010). She received her doctorate in Art History from Brown University in 2005 and has since researched, taught and curated in the US, UK and Japan. Presently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Herberger Institute for the Design and the Arts at Arizona State University where she teaches modern and contemporary art history. She writes an art blog Julia Friedman Contemporary Art and Art History (Contemporary Art Tokyo).

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Art in 'Paradise' (Far From the Art-Industrial Hive)

(1) Comments | Posted June 26, 2012 | 6:12 PM

Not too long ago Holland Cotter, in his New York Times article "On an Island, Worker Bees Fill a Long White Hive" (May 4, 2012), quipped about the ubiquity of sameness, "nonstop visual chatter" of the new, international "art-industrial hive" in which the artist are "worker bees." The...

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'The School of Things': Japanese Art c. 1970 Comes to Los Angeles

(2) Comments | Posted March 14, 2012 | 2:31 PM

Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha
February 25 - April 14, 2012


Blum & Poe is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha. This exhibition examines the postwar Japanese artistic phenomenon
Mono-ha (School of Things), following the solo...

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Turkey with a Side of AJAX: Thanksgiving according to Alice Neel

(0) Comments | Posted November 28, 2011 | 2:08 PM

On a free afternoon during a recent lecture trip to Eugene, Oregon, I stopped by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art to see the traveling exhibition of a contemporary Chinese artist Xiaoze Xie only to spend most of my time in the galleries in front of Alice Neel's unusual and...

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