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A report by Lauren Collins for The New Yorker. Our thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. The first time the French filmmaker and scholar Mame-Fatou Niang encountered “L’histoire en Peinture de l’Assemblée Nationale,” a large painting hanging in the National Assembly in Paris, she was “prise aux tripes”—grabbed by the guts. It…

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Kenny Scharf opens his second solo show at Almine Rech Installation view. PARIS .- Due to the pandemic, Kenny Scharf was not present for his second solo show at Almine Rech. However, as he continued to produce art in his Los Angeles studio in the middle of December, he said he was happy with the freshness of his new paintings. “Its always very exciting for me to show work that’s so recent, and even though I can’t be there, the viewers will see how new it is,” he said. Since the early 1980s,...