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Lina Iris Viktor in her Materia Prima II, 2015. “Some Are Born to Endless Night: Dark Matter” is on view at London’s Autograph Gallery through January 25, 2020.
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Georgia Russell carved her reputation by cutting up photographs and books. She thrilled audiences in 2015 when she moved to canvas, positioning one painting over another, slitting the one in front to reveal—in the voids created with her scalpel—the second canvas pulsing behind it. Now, in a different form of breakthrough, Russell has nearly relinquished her weapon. READ ON
Bed 2019. Georgia Russell’s “Paintings” opens at Paris’s Galerie Karsten Greve on September 13.
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A disrupter decades before the noun existed, Anna Sui continues to ambush fashion’s conventional, not to mention corporate, expectations. The only daughter of well-to-do Chinese immigrants, she fled the safety of home in the suburbs of Detroit for the gritty beginnings of a dream in 1970s New York City. READ ON
The designer Anna Sui. “The World of Anna Sui” opens at the Museum of Arts and Design, in New York City, on September 12.
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