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SHORT: Marina Abramović: Embracing Fashion

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Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. A pioneer of performance as a visual art form, Abramović has used her body as both subject and medium of her performances to test her physical, mental... continue reading

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SHORT: Ai Weiwei: New Communication

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Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing, China in 1957. An outspoken human rights activist, Ai was arrested by Chinese authorities in April 2011 and held incommunicado for three months. Upon his release, he was... continue reading

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SHORT: David Altmejd: Assistants

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David Altmejd

David Altmejd was born in Montreal, Canada in 1974. With an almost childlike fascination for objects that grow, transform, and reshape themselves, Altmejd creates sculptures, suffused with ornament, that blur... continue reading

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SHORT: El Anatsui: "Broken Bridge II"

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El Anatsui

El Anatsui was born in Anyanko, Ghana in 1944. Many of Anatsui’s sculptures are mutable in form, conceived to be so free and flexible that they can be shaped in any way and altered in appearance for each... continue reading

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SHORT: assume vivid astro focus: Masks

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assume vivid astro focus

The collective assume vivid astro focus (avaf) was formed in New York City in 2001. Its principal members are Eli Sudbrack (born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1968) and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson (born in Paris... continue reading

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SHORT: Lynda Benglis: India

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Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1941. A pioneer of a form of abstraction in which each work is the result of materials in action—poured latex and foam, cinched metal, dripped wax... continue reading

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SHORT: Rackstraw Downes: Some Painters

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Rackstraw Downes

Rackstraw Downes was born in Kent, England in 1939. Often described as a realist painter, Downes prefers not to use that term. He views the act of seeing and the art of representation as culturally taught,... continue reading

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SHORT: Glenn Ligon: Installing "Warm Broad Glow II"

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Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1960. Ligon’s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources—literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs... continue reading

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SHORT: Robert Mangold: Town & Country

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Robert Mangold

Robert Mangold was born in North Tonawanda, New York in 1937. With classical restraint, Mangold translates the most basic of formal elements—shape, line, and color—into paintings, prints, and... continue reading

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SHORT: Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic

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Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961. Opie investigates the ways in which photographs both document and give voice to social phenomena in America today, registering people’s attitudes and... continue reading

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SHORT: Mary Reid Kelley: "You Make Me Iliad"

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Mary Reid Kelley

Mary Reid Kelley was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1979. In videos and drawings filled with punning wordplay, Reid Kelley presents her take on the clash between utopian ideologies and the realities of... continue reading

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SHORT: Sarah Sze: Improvisation

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Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1969. Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life, imbuing mundane materials, marks, and processes with surprising... continue reading

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SHORT: Tabaimo: "dolefullhouse"

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Tabaimo

Tabaimo was born in Hyogo, Japan in 1975. Tabaimo’s drawings and video installations probe the unsettling themes of isolation, contagion, and instability that seem to lurk beneath daily existence in... continue reading

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"My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it becomes a little monotonous. So I like to find a challenge."

—Robert Ryman

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