Visions of the Other America
Independence Day

Jasper Johns

America has always been considered as something of a contradiction. With eyes now already towards the midterms and the machine of campaign cycles undaunted by all sorts of bureau investigations, it seems fitting to celebrate on this occasion.

American Democracy has evolved into a terrible beauty, a Kafkaesque sublime, a gateway intended for us but closed by our own volition. Tocqueville says “I do not contest the right of the majority rule. I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of humanity.” I say this of course as an American citizen, however disappointed or embarrassed, and albeit socially and geographically ex-patriated, morally and spiritually exiled.

 

William Klein

Cindy Sherman

Gordon Parks

Edward Hopper

Basquiat

While the nation is becoming one of spreading fear, building walls, killing health care, banning travel and abolishing the National Endowment for the Arts, we might salute some of the other Americans, Jasper Johns, Basquiat, Edward Hopper, Gordon Parks, Cindy Sherman, William Klein, and so many others.

Happy Independence Day.

30 Under 30 Women Photographers / 2023 TAW
Torino Art Week / Exhibition
Presented for Torino Art Week 2023 and in collaboration with Recontemporary in Turin, Artpil proudly announces the 2023 exhibition...
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Torino Art Week 2023
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Torino Art Week 2023 opens the first week of November with events that will fill the city with works...
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Antoni Tàpies. The Practice of Art
Sep 15, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024
A self-taught artist during the interwar period, Tàpies reflected on the human condition, his historical situation and the artistic...
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Dorothea Lange. Tales of Life and Work
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Dorothea Lange's photography, now nearly a hundred years later, continues to resound in its portrayal of a time and...
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Paris Photo 2023
November 9–12, 2023
Paris Photo is the largest art fair dedicated to the photographic medium and is held each November in the...
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REGENERATE
Jun 23 – Dec 10, 2023
With REGENERATE as its theme, the festival brings together works that explore the changes modern society must face, seeing...
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Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
Sep 28, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024
American Prospects has enjoyed a life of acclaim. Its pages are filled with unexpected excitement, despair, tenderness and hope....
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ARTPIL / Prescription .142
White heat. A Green River.
A bridge, scorched yellow palms from the summer-sleeping house drowsing through August. Days I have held, days I have...
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30 Under 30 Women Photographers / 2023 TAW
Torino Art Week / Exhibition
Presented for Torino Art Week 2023 and in collaboration with Recontemporary in Turin, Artpil proudly announces the 2023 exhibition...
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Torino Art Week 2023
Prescription .144
Torino Art Week 2023 opens the first week of November with events that will fill the city with works...
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Antoni Tàpies. The Practice of Art
Sep 15, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024
A self-taught artist during the interwar period, Tàpies reflected on the human condition, his historical situation and the artistic...
+
Dorothea Lange. Tales of Life and Work
Prescription .143
Dorothea Lange's photography, now nearly a hundred years later, continues to resound in its portrayal of a time and...
+
Paris Photo 2023
November 9–12, 2023
Paris Photo is the largest art fair dedicated to the photographic medium and is held each November in the...
+
REGENERATE
Jun 23 – Dec 10, 2023
With REGENERATE as its theme, the festival brings together works that explore the changes modern society must face, seeing...
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Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
Sep 28, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024
American Prospects has enjoyed a life of acclaim. Its pages are filled with unexpected excitement, despair, tenderness and hope. Its fears are expressed in beauty, its sadnesses in irony.
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ARTPIL / Prescription .142
White heat. A Green River.
A bridge, scorched yellow palms from the summer-sleeping house drowsing through August. Days I have held, days I have lost, days that outgrow
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