Chronicles of an American Abyss
By surveying 150 years of social strife, the artists in Model Home (New York) dispel rosy clichés of the "American ideal."
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By surveying 150 years of social strife, the artists in Model Home (New York) dispel rosy clichés of the "American ideal."
3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now Mario Merz’s igloos and spirals at Dia Beacon; Mernet Larsen’s mysterious representational paintings; and a group show, “Everybody Dies!,” explores mortality. Mario Merz’s “Is Space Bent or Straight?” (1973) is made of glass propped around a metal armature and has a typewriter with an ad hoc poem sitting in it. Credit...Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome; Bill Jacobson Studio Published Jan. 13, 2021Updated Jan. 29, 2021 Mario Merz On long-term view. Dia Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, N.Y.; 845-440-0100, diaart.org. Mario Mer...