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Rana Begum Sees What You Don’t
“Art became a tool to communicate, at first,” she told Hyperallergic. "Then it became an obsession.”
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Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetry in Space
The artist suggests that like her fragile assemblages, peace demands care, balance, and the resolve to hold together what might otherwise fall apart.
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With Less Glitter, Arcmanoro Niles’s Illusory Spaces Gleam
While his paintings follow the rules of linear perspectives, Niles uses the materiality of the paint itself to pull viewers into the compositions.
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In Gem-like Hues, Arcmanoro Niles Renders the Mundane Electric
From depictions of his mother to his closest friends, Niles’s canvases illustrate a willful vulnerability to ruminate on the profound relationships in his life.
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Angel Otero’s Paintings of Absence
Otero’s images of water and disaster mirror the wreckage of Hurricane Maria as well as the devastation of COVID-19.
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Angel Otero’s Exquisite Domestic Interiors
In The Fortune of Having Been There, Otero’s paintings seduce us with the whole as well as their individual parts.
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Honoring Motherhood and the Mundane
Wings of Change, the forthcoming New York debut of Billie Zangewa, will bring together a selection of the artist’s tender silk collages, which revel in Black domestic intimacy.
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Lehmann Maupin Gallery Files Lawsuit Against Ex-Employee for Allegedly Stealing Client Data and Trade Secrets
Bona Yoo's former employer says she "surreptitiously copied valuable trade secrets" and "malicious corrupted" or deleted important information before leaving the gallery for a sales director position at Lévy Gorvy.
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In Rihanna Photoshoot for Vogue Paris, Juergen Teller Cribs Imagery from Mickalene Thomas
What's stranger is that the two artists are both represented by Lehmann Maupin and listed side-by-side on the gallery's online roster.
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Beauty and Disunity in Two Visions of the United States
The work of Teresita Fernandez and Nari Ward presents two contradictory views of the United States — one of the most hopeful, and one of the least.
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Nari Ward Spotlights the Gap Between Poverty and Privilege
Nari Ward's exhibition TILL, LIT at Lehmann Maupin gallery alludes to and signifies those key systems of social organization that we can't seem to escape: race and class.
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"One Minute Sculpture” at Twenty: Erwin Wurm’s Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order
Wurm’s latest series of one minute sculptures, incorporating mid-century modern furniture and presented alongside five new cast bronze sculptures at Lehmann Maupin, evidences that, even as he plays with variations on familiar themes, his work remains relevant and fresh.