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James Bishop with his painting Hours, ca. 1963, American Center for Art & Culture, Paris, 1963.

JAMES BISHOP (1927–2021)

Molly Warnock on James Bishop

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May 2021

ON THE WATERFRONT

Peter L’Official on David Hammons’s Day’s End

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Catherine Opie, Saints, 1995, C-print, 60 × 40". From left: Divinity Fudge (Darryl Carlton), Ron Athey, Pigpen (Stosh Fila), Julian Carter.

GLORY IN OUR SUFFERINGS

Tavia Nyong’o and Coco Romack on Ron Athey at Participant Inc

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Ulrike Ottinger, Paris Calligrammes, 2020, HD video, color and black-and-white, sound, 131 minutes.

J. Hoberman on Ulrike Ottinger’s Paris Calligrammes

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Chris Torres, Nyan Cat, 2011, GIF.

Tina Rivers Ryan on NFTs

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Cover of Gavin Bryars’s Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Point Music, 1993).

Elias Bender Rønnenfelt

By Elias Bender Rønnenfelt

May 2021

Colby Chamberlain on the art of Dave McKenzie

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Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, and Per Olof Ultvedt, Hon&#—en katedral (She&#—a Cathedral), 1966, mixed media. Installation view, Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Photo: Hans Hammarskiöld. © Hans Hammarskiöld Heritage.

Johanna Fateman on the art of Niki de Saint Phalle

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Chao-Chen Yang, Young Chinese Guerrilla, ca. 1943, chlorobromide print, 16 × 13". © Chao-chen Yang Estate.

CLOSE-UP: FOR ASIAN LIVES TO MATTER

Joan Kee on Chao-Chen Yang’s Apprehension, ca. 1942

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Dean Sameshima, Untitled (Blowjob), 2003, C-print, 12 1⁄4 × 9 5⁄8". From the series “Outlaw,” 2003.

CLOSE-UP: INDIFFERENCE AND REPETITION

David Rimanelli on Dean Sameshima’s “Outlaw,” 2003

By David Rimanelli

Luke Libera Moore, Uncertainty Model #1, 2021, digital photograph.

PROJECT: LUKE LIBERA MOORE

Dawn Chan introduces an artist project by Luke Libera Moore

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Whitney Claflin.

OPENINGS: WHITNEY CLAFLIN

Domenick Ammirati on Whitney Claflin

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View of “KAWS: WHAT PARTY,” 2021. From left: M2, 2000; Companion, 2010; Companion (Resting Place), 2013. Photo: Michael Biondo.

Thomas Crow on KAWS

Brooklyn Museum

By Jane Freilicher

Kasmin | 297 Tenth Avenue

By “PHOTO | BRUT: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie”

American Folk Art Museum

Marlborough | Chelsea

By Alastair Mackinven

Reena Spaulings Fine Art | New York

By Jeanne Reynal

Eric Firestone Loft | New York

By “Lost & Found”

Martos Gallery | New York

By Malia Jensen

Cristin Tierney

By Kazuko Miyamoto

Zürcher Gallery | New York

By Bat-Ami Rivlin

By Bruce Burris

Kristen Lorello

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View of “Sasha Wortzel,” 2021. Photo: Pedro Wazzan.

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Kentaro Kawabata, Batista 1, 2020, porcelain, glass, slag, feldspar, 13 × 30 × 15 3⁄4". From “Sea Change.”

“Sea Change”

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Xylor Jane, Walking to Your House (Counting by Threes), 2020, ink and oil on panel, 18 1⁄2 × 19 1⁄2".

Parrasch Heijnen Gallery

By Caitlin Keogh

By Emma McIntyre

Chris Sharp Gallery

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View of “Sameer Farooq,” 2021. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

Koffler Gallery

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Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Importa qué materias usamos para pensar otras materias (It Matters What Matters We Use to Think Other Matters With), 2020, ink-jet print on cotton paper. 18 1⁄2 × 18 1⁄2". From the series “La resistencia” (The Resistance), 2020.

Verónica Gerber Bicecci

Proyectos Monclova

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Jaider Esbell, A conversa das entidades intergalácticas para decidir o futuro universal da humanidade (The Conversation of Intergalactic Entities to Decide the Universal Future of Humanity), 2021, acrylic and Posca pen on canvas, 44 1⁄8 × 90 1⁄2".

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Jean Claracq, Dikhotomia, 2021, oil on wood, 33 7⁄8 × 51 1⁄4".

Galerie Sultana

By Florian and Michael Quistrebert

Galerie Crèvecoeur

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Rafael Tur Costa, untitled, 1987, graphite, colored pencil, and paper on canvas, 51 1⁄8 × 38 1⁄4".

Palma de Mallorca

Rafael Tur Costa

Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma

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Alberto Savinio, Les Dioscures (The Dioscuri), 1929, oil on canvas, 25 5⁄8 × 21 1⁄4".

Alberto Savinio

Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Altemps

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Enrico David, Il fraterno silenzio del fango (The Fraternal Silence of Mud), 2020, acrylic on canvas, 9' 1 1⁄2" × 14' 8".

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Rebecca Ackroyd, Trawler, 2020, epoxy resin, fiberglass, wig, 29 1⁄8 × 21 1⁄4 × 7 7⁄8".

Rebecca Ackroyd

By John Coplans and Michael Schmidt

Galerie Nordenhake Berlin

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View of “Dorothy Iannone and Juliette Blightman: The Köln Concert,” 2020–21. Photo: Mareike Tocha.

Dorothy Iannone and Juliette Blightman

Kölnischer Kunstverein

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Amber Ablett, Rehearsal for A Change Gonna Come, 2021, three-channel HD video installation, color, sound, 25 minutes. Installation view. Photo: Vegard Kleven.

UKS - Unge Kunstneres Samfund

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Aleksandra Kasuba, Live-In Environment, 1971–72, mixed media. Installation view.

Aleksandra Kasuba

National Gallery of Art

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Extrastruggle, Bureau for Registering the Sufferings Caused by Former Governments, 2021, laser-cut iron, 12 1⁄4 × 44 7⁄8 × 1".

Zilberman | Istanbul

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Stephanie Comilang, Diaspora Ad Astra, 2020, HD video, color, sound, 5 minutes 25 seconds.

Stephanie Comilang

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Latifah Iddriss, The greener grass on the other side of the fence [seems rather red], 2020, grass, paint, mirrors, wooden bases weighted with sand. Installation view. From “Stations of Protest.” Photo: M+.

“Stations of Protest”

Nubuke Foundation

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Shih Meng Hsin, ( ), 2020, iron,wood, lightbulbs. Installation view. Photo: Kagaw Omin.

Michael Ku Gallery 谷公館

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View of “Choi Byungso: Sens et Non-Sens: Works from 1974–2020,” 2020–21. From top: Untitled, 2019; Untitled 016000, 2016.

ARARIO GALLERY Seoul

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Heman Chong, Call for the Dead #25, 2020, silk-screened acrylic on linen, 18 1⁄8 × 24". From the eighty-three-part suite Call for the Dead, 2020.

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Archie Moore, Family Tree, 2021, conté crayon and blackboard paint on MDF. Installation view. Photo: Zan Wimberley.

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Chao-Chen Yang, Apprehension (detail), ca. 1942, Fujiflex print, 16 × 12 1⁄2". © Chao-chen Yang Estate.

Chao-Chen Yang, Apprehension (detail), ca. 1942, Fujiflex print, 16 × 12 1⁄2". © Chao-chen Yang Estate.

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