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Joel Sternfeld

The arc of photographic history is a mean and subtle thing. Subtle, in that the line between the picture taken by a competent amateur and one taken by a consummate artist is often

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Amsterdam


Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

What purposes can monuments now serve, in a culture so full of messages, meanings, and temptations? That question underlies the exhibition “Portable Monuments” at Galerie Gabri

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Paris


Jesper Just

It is a risky move for an artist to build his or her work on a series of references. Yet the output of the Danish-born, New York–based artist Jesper Just, which consists of count

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Berlin


Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys

The list of fictional artists in the history of art is so long that by now it could fill whole encyclopedias. With their current exhibition, “Im Reich der Sonnenfinsternis” (In

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Nashville


Tracey Snelling

Is she an innocent woman or a femme fatale? The question lies at the heart of Tracey Snelling’s elaborate multimedia installation Woman on the Run, 2008–11, which follows the f

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London


Brian Griffiths

Brian Griffiths’s brand of quasi-Victorian Arte Povera reanimates the detritus of fantastical culture to carnivalesque effect. He is known for large-scale sculptures and motley o

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Washington, DC


Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan began making photographs in 1938, at the age of twenty-six, teaching himself to use a camera while working as an accounting clerk for General Motors in Detroit. The

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Miami


Fernando Mastrangelo

Fernando Mastrangelo has spent the past few years condensing powders into bricks of social critique. He pressed corn meal pressed into an Aztec calendar criticizing NAFTA. Human as

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New York


Matt Hoyt

Minutely arranged on a number of unobtrusive shelves, Matt Hoyt’s sculptural works appear as art as if by incidence: Each seems to resemble cast-off flotsam one might typically k

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London


Asier Mendizabal

Asier Mendizabal’s latest body of work investigates the capacity of signs to embody ideas. Though the Basque artist draws from a lexicon of political and social visual symbols, i

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Beacon


Jean-Luc Moulène

Jean-Luc Moulène’s yearlong exhibition “Opus + One” comprises three distinct modules dispersed throughout the vast building. The most beguiling of all is the large gallery o

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London


Grayson Perry

Priceless artifacts from the British Museum’s vast collection come into dialogue with Grayson Perry’s sardonic wit in “The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman.” Perry explores hi

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