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  The Art of Forensics

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  Charlene Vickers and Faye HeavyShield

  Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery’s (CAG) pairing of two solo shows, “Ancestor Gesture” by Charlene Vickers and “New Work” by Faye HeavyShield, appeared, on first viewing, strangely unequal.

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  Tom Sachs

  “In order to be a critic, you have to be a willing participant,” states Tom Sachs in the podcast feature of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, where his latest exhibition, “Space Program: Rare Earths,” takes over the venue’s expansive 3,000-metres-square north hall.

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  “A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention”

  “Architecture is always intended to be a mirror of society,” says curator Giovanna Borasi

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  Rashid Johnson

  At night, luminous white lines can be seen through the glass, suspended within an ambiguous volume and latched onto the building’s robust columns. The constituent parts of that volume blend with each other, merging into the cavernous darkness.

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  “A Story in Three Parts”

  The story, set in the early 1900s, has been passed down through multi-generational oral traditions, acquiring an almost mythical quality in its reiterative representation of human suffering and endurance in the material and spiritual worlds.

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  New Museum Triennial: ” Soft Water Hard Stone”

  “Soft Water Hard Stone” is the fifth edition of the Triennial at the New Museum in the Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan. This exhibition has always been known for showcasing a variety of talented emerging and early mid-career artists, and this current version has held to that practice.

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  Susan Dobson

  Susan Dobson’s exhibition “Slide/Lecture” makes me homesick. Standing in the darkened, silent gallery space, I am transported back in time, twice, to two difference decades, two different cities, two different lifetimes.

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  Nicholas Party

  There’s a lot to unpack in a stroll through the immersive and multifaceted exhibition by Swiss artists Nicolas Party, “L’heure mauve.”

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  Thomas Hirschhorn

  I want to express the complexity and contradiction of the world into a single collage. I want to express the world that I am living in, not the whole world as the entire world but as a fragmented world. —Thomas Hirschhorn, 2006

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  Subjectivity of an Artist’s Object: A Participant’s View of Alvin Luong’s “Workers Dance”

  …Luong seeks to create irony through a sense of dissonance between the state and the symbolism of state heads, while simultaneously undermining the “power” of the state by giving back power to the working class.

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  Alison Yip

  What will cause me great embarrassment? What new skill will I develop?

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