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  Taqralik Partridge, curved against the hull of a peterhead

  Every day Jason Blake is shot in the back and we are taught that late capitalism will take only more spectacular and grotesque forms in decline. The art of Taqralik Partridge, born of community-inflected forms from hip hop to Inuit storytelling, knows this.

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  Hinterland Remixed: Media, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s’ by Andrew Burke

  Andrew Burke explores this rich legacy of ’70s media in his recently published book, Hinterland Remixed: Media, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s. Burke, a professor of cultural studies at the University of Winnipeg, is interested in analogue media in the “afterglow” of ’67.

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  Moyra Davey Index Cards

  Everyone I know pretty much loves the photographer, filmmaker and writer Moyra Davey. She’s singular in her coupling of erudition and vulnerability; also in her erasure of the gap between art, writing and life. This collection of her essays— from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions Publishing—will only strengthen the consensus.

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  “Relations: Diaspora and Painting”

  “RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting,” more specifically, examines painting, identity and how the medium can become informed and revitalized through cultural memory.

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  “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist”

  The American painter Agnes Pelton’s quasi-abstract symbolic landscapes enchant utterly.

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  Jon Pylypchuk

  Jon Pylypchuk’s “Waiting for the Next Nirvana” at the Petzel Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, debuted a significant new body of work in painting and sculpture. It was titled after the Generation X article of faith that the last great rock band was Seattle’s Nirvana.

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  “Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millenium”

  Ten painters, ranging in date of birth from Daniel Richter in 1962 to Tschabalala Self in 1990, make up the Whitechapel Gallery’s survey.

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  “A Handful of Dust: From the Cosmic to the Domestic”

  Of the duelling ideological strands running through modernism—proclamations of utopian progress twined with on-the-ground disaster—British curator David Campany attends to the latter, focusing on the 20th century’s repressed underside— decay, debris and death.

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  Tau Lewis

  Toronto-based but currently peripatetic artist Tau Lewis has recently been attracting international attention, notably at large American institutions such as MoMA PS1, the Hammer Museum, LA, and the New Museum in New York.

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  Michael Lin and Federico Herrero

  Michael Lin’s temporary commission for the private art foundation Museo Jumex is a hand-painted floor that occupies 1,300 square metres across the museum’s plaza and through the building’s main level. The work is based on a traditional tablecloth design, one found in inexpensive restaurants in Mexico and one that echoes textile designs from Lin’s native Taiwan.

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  “John Eisler: Lantern,” and “Janine Miedzik: Tie-Dye for Germans”

  Angell Gallery’s parallel exhibitions of Janine Miedzik’s “Tie-Dye for Germans” and John Eisler’s “Lantern” bring together two artists for whom play is serious business.

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  “Yearning for Comfort, Not Cure”

  I have spent the greater part of my life entangled in a search for a cure to my madness. From a young age I was made to believe that there was something wrong with the chemicals in my body, that I had a defect that ought to be fixed.

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