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An X user claims to have "improved" Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks," a study of urban life, using artificial intelligence.

Adriana Furlong makes sculptures about the grand history of class struggle and the vortical clinamen of economic transformation in Manhattan, from a workers’ town to a neoliberal haven for financial speculation and accumulation.

Don Eddy is a master painter whose career has spanned over fifty years. The subject matter of his paintings has consisted of the most mundane materials, yet the completed paintings rivet the most discerning viewer with curiosity.

Beneath the vaulted ceilings of the gallery, a ruin emerges from the ground to meet a shroud suspended above. From wood, mesh, clay and ash-stained cloth, curator Myriam Ben Salah has invited Dala Nasser to build an effigy of the Temple of Adonis, which is located in Lebanon.

Imagine a reality where the future is historical and the past contemporary, where time stands still and simultaneously moves on. Ali Banisadr conjures such wondrous worlds in his paintings. By bringing the ancient into conversation with phenomena of the present and the future, he explores what stands the test of time. And the circumstances of the current exhibition itself similarly weave together distinct layers of time and space, as the Tehran-born and Brooklyn-based painter celebrates his firs...

Aaron Curry is a mid-career sculptor working with figures made of light wood, often on chest-high pedestals of the same material, usually embellished with colored pencil and some paint. The figures, divided into two small rooms in the gallery, start out at first like examples of 20th-century modernism, but there is another current: often the faces and bodies of the figures look a bit eccentric, as if their inspiration came from cartoons.

When in 1505 a fire damaged a very important commercial site, it was quickly rebuilt. And then in 1508 Titian competed with Giorgione in doing frescoes on this building. The exhibition’s Italian title marks this moment as the beginning of Titian’s brilliant career.

Mendieta’s films are tethered to Cuba, sharing the same political undercurrents as the Cuban filmmakers of the decade prior, and are just as confrontational.

Though the sample size is still small, their output thus far demonstrates a holistic approach to photobook publishing, where the images and their sequencing are amplified and expanded upon by inventive and creative design choices, with each element neatly and evocatively tying together.

In the exhibition Hybrid: An Interspecies Opera at Fridman Gallery, on view through December 13, 2023, Heather Dewey-Hagborg stages another kind of revelatory reckoning, this time in the biomedical arena in which pigs, one of our closest genetic relatives, host organs for human use.