Aliza Nisenbaum talks about her work
New York–based artist Aliza Nisenbaum talks about her life and art, from her influences to her involvement with Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International in Queens, as well as her show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art September 29–February 4, 2018. To read Emily Liebert’s accompanying piece on Nisenb … READ ON
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