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Force Majeure
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Kara Walker responds to Hurricane Katrina with a wake-up call of a show at the Met
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Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962-1964; Andy Warhol at the Art Gallery of Ontario
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Memo to the Art Gallery of Ontario: fire your marketing staff. Initially, we welcomed the news that the AGO would be hosting an Andy Warhol show. Until, that is, we saw the ads. Far from being clever and savvy, these ads actually raise the not-entirely-unrealistic prospect that the AGO had never ever heard of Warhol, nor had they any clue what he had ever done.
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Royal Art Lodge at The Drawing Center
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The inventive and delightfully serendipitous drawings, sculptures and dolls in this show derive from a collaborative practice by the eight members of the group... these artists create post-surrealistic landscapes populated by simply and awkwardly rendered characters who question or fall victim to the lassitude of an imperfect, stupid and mean-spirited world.
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Richard Stipl at Daniel Silverstein Gallery
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The sublime torment of Richard Stipl’s demented figures resembles nothing so much as the stoic, hardened, drunken peasants trapped in Hieronymous Bosch’s purgatories. And like the prime-time reality-television programs we all deny watching, these grotesque miniatures at once repel and attract our gaze, making us at once slightly nauseous yet terribly compelled to keep looking.
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Richard Kern at Feature, Inc.
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Richard Kern's models pose before his lens in manners most people only ever experience with their most intimate partners. Treading in the shallow underground waters that flow periodically between art and porn, Kern's images carry the feeling of privacy and intimacy you normally draw only from those home movies or Polaroid/digital pictures of your past sexual partners...
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Nicholas di Genova at Le. Gallery
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In his debut solo exhibition, at Toronto’s tiny but edgy and inspiring Le Gallery, Nicholas di Genova offered ink and ‘cell animation’ paint on mylar drawings that displayed his attention to artists like Twist, Futura, and DALEK.
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Kristine Moran: Dissolution Plan at Angell Gallery
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In her second solo exhibition, Kristine Moran sharpens the focus in her sci-fi paintings, zeroing in on the ideas of utopian theorists from the 20th century—Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, Constant Nieuwenhuys and Buckminster Fuller—to present inner-city landscapes from an imagined alternative present.
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Kristin Baker at Deitch Projects
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Never using brushes to create her works, Kristin Baker wields knives, normally a tool of deconstruction and violence, to construct worlds of speed and elegant tragedy. The narratives depicted on these monumentally scaled PVC boards freeze crucial fragments of time, the exact nanosecond when wild destruction occurs and God decides if the racecar driver will live or die.
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Joseph Beuys at Artcore
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Joseph Beuys's commitment to his final major project, Difesa della Natura (Defense of Nature), 1972–86, is captured faithfully in this museum-quality exhibition.
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Jeremy Blake's Winchester Trilogy
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Winchester (2002), Jeremy Blake's latest animated DVD, thankfully strikes a perfect balance between a crypto-mystic narrative percolating just beneath the surface and the fantasias of psychedelic color glowing like kryptonite that characterizes all of his opulent video work.
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