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ArtSeen

• The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin

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  By Rabia Ashfaque

• Art or Politics?

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  By Jurriaan Benschop

• Ian Wilson

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  By Mira Dayal

• Lygia Pape A Multitude of Forms

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  By Yasi Alipour

• Doug Wheeler PSAD Synthetic Desert

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  By Hannah Sage Kay

• Teresita Fernández Fire (America)

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  By Lara Atallah

• Ian Cheng Emissaries

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  By Charlene K. Lau

• Threads of Fire and Water and Gold

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  By Laila Pedro

• Postcommodity Coyotaje

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  By Jared Quinton

• Beatriz Santiago MUÑOZ A Universe of Fragile Mirrors

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  By Sara Christoph

• Jimmie Durham At the Center of the World

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  By Anthony Hawley

• Max Ernst Big Brother: Teaching Staff for a School of Murderers

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  By Mary Ann Caws

• Stephen Irwin Check to see if still dead inside

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  By Stephen Truax

• Lisa Alvarado Sound Talisman

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  By Joe Bucciero

• Sean Scully Wall of Light Cubed

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  By Jonathan Goodman

• Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C. – A.D. 220)

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  By Hovey Brock

• Peder Balke: Painter of Northern Light

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  By Jason Rosenfeld