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How is Adriano Pedrosa's Venice Biennale show, 'Foreigners Everywhere?' Judge for yourself.

From the start, the Zürich Biennial was an exhibition whose theme and reason to be was art. We live in a moment in which it seems as if the only option for group exhibitions is the thematic exhibition.

The Austrian artist Leopold Strobl has a straightforward way of working: he looks through the pictures in daily newspapers, selects a scene, cuts it out, mounts it on thicker paper, and then covers much of the surface in colored pencil and graphite.

Photography in the Raw The humbling exhibition “Photo Brut” brings together generations of self-taught artists who appropriate photographs or create their own. The Japanese artist Ichiwo Sugino achieves his impersonations in “Photo Brut” mostly with adhesive tape and posts them on his Instagram account. Subjects include cultural figures from Thomas Edison to Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese and Andy Warhol.Credit...Ichiwo Sugino Feb. 4, 2021 It’s great that the American Folk Art ...

Exhibition reveals the critical potential of a relatively unexplored area of art by the self-taught Leopold Strobl (1960, Mistelbach, Austria), untitled, 2015, pencil and colored pencil on newsprint clipping adhered to paper, 2 5/8 x 3 5/8 in., Collection Bruno Decharme, © Galerie Gugging. Photo by Ilan Weiss. NEW YORK, NY .- Photo | Brut: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie is on view at the American Folk Art Museum from January 24, 2021 through June 6, 2021. Gathering works from the early...

Through a Glass, Darkly and Brightly Elizabeth Pochoda Collection of the artist, © Ichiwo Sugino. Except as noted, photographs courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum, New York. Difficult times for the American Folk Art Museum went public in 2011, when its building, a gem by the architects’ Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, was sold to the Museum of Modern Art. Despite much vocal opposition, MoMA eventually reduced that gem to rubble in 2014, making way for nothing comparable on 53rd Street....