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Don’t Sweat The Technique
Leonardo Drew in "Investigation"
Art in the Twenty-First Century
"The Last Post"
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Avery Singer’s Next Painting
New York Close Up
Material / Immaterial
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Art in the Twenty-First Century
Doreen Garner's Invisible Man Tattoo
New York Close Up
"The Wave of the World"
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New York Close Up
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Don’t Sweat The Technique

In this playlist, artists bounce between mediums, pulling techniques from one form and applying them to another, and expanding narratives. Avery Singer promotes the philosophy that a “technique tells its own story,” and the juxtaposition of new and old “produces a new visual reality” and new meaning.

Don’t Sweat The Technique
by Art21January 23, 2019 12 videos • 1:28:54 total runtime

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