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Derek McCormack on Vivienne Westwood
Source artforum.com STOP SAYING STUPID SHIT. I write this directive in honor of Vivienne Westwood. Stop saying stupid shit about fashion. I write this directive because Westwood loved writing directives—she printed
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Ad Minoliti
Source artforum.com Growing up, Ad Minoliti dreamed of becoming an architect; today, the artist’s stencil-sharp, high-key color abstractions and plush installations consider how childhood is collectively built. As pioneering
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Renee Gladman shares her top ten
Source artforum.com Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing, and architecture. She is the author of
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Amy Sillman on Alex Katz
Source artforum.com The curtain rose quickly to reveal a quiet stage dominated by a huge rectangular backdrop painted by Alex Katz with puffy clouds arrayed in pink-violet tones, though it was hard to say which colors
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Yesmine Ben Khelil
Source artforum.com For her solo show “New Flesh, the Feeling of the Evening is Deep” at La Boite, Yesmine Ben Khelil turns her attention to the Carthage oceanographic museum Dar el Hout. The public institution’s poor
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“Fractured Times”
Source artforum.com For the inaugural exhibition of the Outpost, the first locally owned private museum for contemporary art in Vietnam, “Fractured Times,” Lê Thuận Uyên, the space’s artistic director and curator, has
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George Bolster
Source artforum.com George Bolster’s exhibition “Communication: We Are Not the Only Ones Talking” immerses viewers in a mixture of fact and fiction, of documentary and mythology. A rounded alcove, The Impermanence of
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Giulia Cenci
Source artforum.com In his 1922 poem “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot describes an acute aridity: “Here is no water but only rock / Rock and no water and the sandy road.” Giulia Cenci channels this concurrence of dryness and
