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  Bruce Nauman @ Tate Modern

  Simply titled “Bruce Nauman,” this show presents a broad survey of the artist’s five-decades-long career and emphasizes its multidisciplinarity as well as his loyalty to high modernist themes. Included are a large number of his neon pieces, as well as sound and video/installation works, while the remainder exist heterogeneously.

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  ‘SIXSIXSIX’ by Samuel Fosso

  The artist Samuel Fosso’s book of photographs, SIXSIXSIX, is physically dense. That is the first apparent thing before you pick it up and flip through. In fact, its very physicality might deter you from lifting it to parse through like any average photo book.

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  Joani Tremblay

  The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda extolled the beauty and necessity of lemons in “Ode to a Lemon,” one of his most beautiful poems. He palpates the lemon in ways similar to what Joani Tremblay attempts in her recent work.Her paintings, brimming over with dollops of pure colour, are bewitching cornucopias of real and imagined places.

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  Rick Leong

  Chinese landscape painting transmutes into a fresh, hybrid language in British Columbian artist Rick Leong’s new solo show, “Carmanah,” at the Montreal-based gallery Bradley Ertaskiran.

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  “Madiha Aijaz: Memorial for the lost pages” Althea Thauberger, Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Duniya

  Videos and inkjet prints by the late Karachi-based artist Madiha Aijaz examine, among other things, the complex cultural, political and linguistic legacy of colonialism as revealed in her city’s urban spaces.

  Vancouver-based Althea Thauberger’s ambitious video touches on the communal, relational and, in some ways, aspirational meanings associated with Karachi’s Capri Cinema.

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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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