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Artist Sarah Graham on raising awareness for bipolar disorder and how art saved her life

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Sarah Graham has become a renowned British artist for her fun and joyful kitsch paintings, paying homage to familiar toys, sweets and brands from the 1980s and 1990s. She attempted suicide by overdose twice between 2005 and 2015 until she was sectioned in 2017 and then reclassified as Type 1 bipolar.

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‘An Indigenous Present’ Is a Paradigm-Shifting Illumination of Native North American Art Today

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Works by more than 60 artists comprise the monumental survey, exploring myriad practices focused on and intersecting contemporary art, music, filmmaking, choreography, architecture, writing, photography, design, and more. Image courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York All pieces by Dana Claxton.

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Humans and Animals Commune with Nature and the Cosmos in the Multidisciplinary Work of Kiki Smith

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All images © the artist, courtesy of Pace Gallery, shared with permission If you’ve traveled via the Long Island Rail Road service in Manhattan and traversed the MTA’s brand new Grand Central Madison station, you may have noticed a slice of nature indoors in a monumental, wall-spanning mosaic of a woodland deer.

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Between the Wrinkles: New Joe Sorren exhibition is a 'hymn to the beauty of life'

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Surrealist artist Joe Sorren is about to make his debut at Dorothy Circus Gallery's London gallery with a solo exhibition titled Between the Wrinkles. Now, if you're in London, you can marvel at his work in the Dorothy Circus Gallery. The show consists of new paintings that explore the artist's emotions and memories.

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A New Book Celebrates the Groundbreaking Women Who Changed Land Art

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Image © Lita Albuquerque, courtesy of the artist and Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles. shared with permission As conceptual art emerged in the 1960s as a dominant movement, more artists turned their attentions toward atypical materials and spaces. All images courtesy of Artbook D.A.P., Groundswell is available on Bookshop.

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Between the Wrinkles: New Joe Sorren exhibition is a 'hymn to the beauty of life'

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Surrealist artist Joe Sorren is about to make his debut at Dorothy Circus Gallery's London gallery with a solo exhibition titled Between the Wrinkles. Now, if you're in London, you can marvel at his work in the Dorothy Circus Gallery. The show consists of new paintings that explore the artist's emotions and memories.

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A Trailblazing Photography Collector Champions Black Artists

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Petros , Hadenbes, 2005. Courtesy the artist/Bradley Ertaskiran Jamel Shabazz. In 1997, Dr. Kenneth Montague, a practicing dentist, created a gallery inside the halls of his Toronto home. Kenneth Montague, a practicing dentist, created a gallery inside the halls of his Toronto home. He was just ten years old at the time.

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