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  • Sexuality in Art ICA London

    There are a lot of cocks and balls here. You can’t miss them. They bulge out of tight jeans, they fill walls, they poke you in the eye, they keep on coming. You can’t avoid the flying fluids. Yes, this is a family newspaper, but what is one to do? “Please be aware that this exhibition contains challenging imagery,” says a sign, downplaying all the penile dramas filling the ICA. Keep Your Timber Limber is a seminal and well-hung exhibition in every sense – except for the making-sense part.

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  • Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art in Toronto

    Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art is a group exhibition featuring the work of more than fifty Canadian and international artists and writers. It is the first exhibition to examine the work of conceptual writing, investigating the roots of the movement in the art of the 1960s and 70s and presenting contemporary examples of text-based art practices. The Power Plant brings Postscript to the gallery to exptory.

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  • Basquiat, the musical?

    First, there was Leonardo the Musical, a mostly fictional production about Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa. Then there was the three-hour-long Starry Nights, about, yes, Vincent van Gogh. Next came Pop!, a piece of “canned camp,” as the New York Times called it, focused on Andy Warhol and the Factory, followed by Michelangelo the Musical (a no-brainer). And now … now, dear art lovers, there is Basquiat the Musical. (People really need to get more creative with titling.)

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