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top five: what to see this Month
By Maria Lind
Curator and writer, director of the graduate programme, Center for Curatorial studies, Bard College
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american and activist works
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from the 1960s and 70s. they
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beautiful work by deimantas
List Center for art
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and poLitiCs, the
series of large-scale paintings. he is something so
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new sChooL, new york
rare as a plein-air painter, locating his subjects
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moment and so forth, and views that are distinctly C
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in Malmö, sweden, and this
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artist Julie ault, ex-member
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visual arts programme at
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this first english translation of the 1976 novel
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by swiss sociologist albert Meister imagines a 76-
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angeles. Both her teaching
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storey ‘radical libertarian space’ submerged beneath

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methods and the visual B o
that flagship of state-funded culture, the pompidou C N
language borrowed from
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Centre (Beauborg). it is an alternative vision
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commercial arts and employed
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of what work in general and cultural production
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in her bold graphic work were
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inventive, and imbued with a
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radical message.
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