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ANDRA URSUTA
words by Joanna Fiduccia

Never say Andra Ursuta didn’t pay homage to her forerunners. Ten feet tall and coated in black rubber like some improbable sex toy, Ass to Mouth (2010) is a double tribute:

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SYLVIA SLEIGH
words by Joanna Fiduccia

Sylvia Sleigh was 57 years old when she met Paul Rosano. In those days, numerous New York artists and critics came under the British painter’s brush, but it was Rosano she seemed to love the best. He was her Victorine [...]

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HAEGUE YANG
words by Joanna Fiduccia

The accounts of that night are rapturous, inconsistent, improbable, legendary. On May 29, 1913, Serge Diaghilev’s production of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, choreographed and danced by [...]

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DORIT MARGREITER’S
“PAVILION”
words by Joanna Fiduccia

Almost every text about pavilions mentions their etymology—from the French for butterfly, in reference to the stately tents that constituted the original fairground havens. The [...]

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