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“In our dreams, somehow we float. And I was wanting to make an artwork that seemingly had no up or down.” —Lynda Benglis

Speaking of Lynda Benglis…. In the multivolume 2019 edition of Women’s History Month, she likely deserves a few chapters. The Louisiana-born artist moved to New York in 1964 and, almost immediately upon her arrival, immersed herself in the art world, where she has firmly remained.

In this video for her exhibition last year at Paula Cooper Gallery—with whom she has had a decades-long relationship—Benglis talks about “the clarity of the pour” for artists like Pollock and Frankenthaler as well as her own subconscious attempts to replicate the natural world. “I had made nature, in a way,” she says.

The brief video is excerpted from a longer Artforum interview in which Benglis talks about her life and work in New York since the 1960s, including, of course, the advertisement. As Benglis says, “I think the ad received the kind of attention that it deserved.”

Museums

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MUSEUMS: Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine

5:24

MUSEUMS: For Walter J. Hood, Architecture Means Power

4:28

MUSEUMS: Fabric Workshop and Museum Explores Clay and Fabric

8:08

MUSEUMS: Julie Mehretu Behind-the-Scenes With Checkerboard Films

2:09

MUSEUMS: Alice Neel Paints Life “Hot off the Griddle”

Galleries

5:24

GALLERIES: Alec Soth Takes the Measure of Photography

6:09

GALLERIES: Pablo Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing

3:41

GALLERIES: For Landon Metz, Failure is an Option

4:17

GALLERIES: Jacob El Hanani Is a Line-Maker

1:09:20

LONGFORM: Sheila Hicks Reflects From Home in Paris

Studios

1:53

VAULT: Philip Guston Biopic Trailer (1981)

3:32

STUDIOS: Joep van Lieshout on Going Beyond Beautiful Design

5:02

STUDIOS: Peter Beard: “Nature is the best thing we’ve got”

10:34

STUDIOS: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Material Instinct (2000)

3:00

STUDIOS: Billy Childish Gets Out of the Way of the Picture

Community

36:17

PODCAST: ‘Barbara London Calling’ Launches Season 2

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LONGFORM: Hughie O’Donoghue in Conversation with Charles Saumarez Smith

3:31

COMMUNITY: William Eric Brown Applies New Processes to Old

58:08

PODCAST: Heidi Zuckerman in Conversation with Adam Pendleton

22:57

LONGFORM: ‘To Cast Too Bold a Shadow’ Exhibition Walkthrough

Market

3:39

MARKET: For Kimsooja, Immaterial Art Achieves Memory

15:35

MARKET: How Christie’s and Sotheby’s Dominate the Art Market

3:00

MARKET: Ghada Amer on Being a Woman Artist

4:37

MARKET: Catherine Petitgas is an Enabler

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MARKET: Kunsthalle Basel Is of Its Time