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  Subjectivities

  In the span of three years three books have been made available to readers in North America where the simple statement “I am my own subject” could apply.

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  Clarice Lispector: The Thereness of Language

  Everyone who reads Clarice Lispector grapples with the figure who can’t be interrogated now, since she died in 1977, and couldn’t be queried any more readily when she was alive. To read her is to enter a state of involuntariness.

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  Andy, We Hardly Knew You

  In his lifetime Andy Warhol took an inventive approach to the facts of his biography. At different times he claimed to have been born in 1929, 1930 and 1933; he even lied about his age to his doctor; and he changed his place of birth from Philadelphia to Newport, Rhode Island, and to Cleveland.

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  Reverence Points

  A piece of used carpeting measuring 100 by 74 inches, with white paint or primer on the surface, doesn’t add up to much unless you read the marks and find there a representation of the Annunciation in one of its many iterations. Think of 14th- and 15th-century paintings by Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci. Two figures in profile, the angel, often on the left, carrying the divine message, and on the right, the humbled, astonished recipient, seated or kneeling.

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  “First We Take the Museum”

  Long-time design collaborators Rodney LaTourelle and Louise Witthöft have made a practice of working with colour and light. From the colour strategy they employed for the interior corridors at PlugIn ICA in Winnipeg, to the public sculpture commission, “HOFA,” in Berlin, Germany, the team uses colour to provoke new forms of interaction within public space.

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  AR Penck

  I hadn’t guessed that AR Penck was quite such a hero in his hometown. It hadn’t even occurred to me when I was booked into Dresden’s Penck Hotel that the coincidence of names was anything more than that, a coincidence— but no, I found the lobby filled with marvellous canvases by the artist, named Ralf Winkler by his parents, a 1939 son of the city who died in 2017.

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  Mark Bradford

  Mark Bradford ’s show “Cerberus” at Hauser & Wirth in London consists of nine paintings and a video. The video is Dancing in the Street, and has Martha and the Vandellas projected, recorded and filmed flickering across city blocks, fences and garages on a drive through Los Angeles.

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  Robert Houle

  “Histories,” located just down the hall from a large exhibition of works by another Manitoba painter, and Group of Seven member, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, has the air initially of an intervention.

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  “NSCAD Lithography Workshop: Contemporary Editions”

  In 1971, John Baldessari sent a letter to NSCAD, instructing students to write the phrase I will not make any more boring art on the walls of the school’s Mezzanine Gallery.

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  Hajra Waheed

  Certainly the most audience- pleasing but also one of the most thematically revealing works in Hajra Waheed’s “Hold Everything Dear” is You Are Everywhere (a variation), 2012–19, an immersive installation inviting audiences to lie on a wooden floor, which is lit to resemble a starry sky.

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  Wayne Thiebaud

  Accompanied by a small group of drawings, “Mountains 1965–2019” was a show of landscape paintings by Wayne Thiebaud, ranging across the titular span, at Acquavella Galleries in Manhattan, in November and December of 2019.

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  Suzy Lake

  Gamesmanship—the exploitation of weakness through strategy rather than brute force alone—is older than chess, but the game has its origins in that approach. Initially a prestigious pastime in India during the 6th century, and called the “game of kings” in its origin-variation Chaturanga, by the end of the 10th century chess had spread to Persia and then to Europe.

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