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At Gagosian: Photography’s Tragic Heroine Francesca Woodman

Francisca Woodman’s stunning solo exhibition at Gagosian’s includes terrifying and sad portraits of decay and invisibility, of subjects obscured by their surroundings or fading into nothingness, of faceless figures surrendering to hopelessness and entropy.

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Bruna D'Alessandro: Working Magic With Metal

Brooklyn-based Italian artist Bruna D'Alessandro uses steel to render magic wands, along with organics like flowers, leaves and twigs; soft things like pillows and bed linens; a teddy bear, a loaf of bread, tomatoes, mushrooms, flowing abstract terrains, even human breasts.

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Angelina Jolie’s Takeover of Basquiat’s Last Home: It Could be Worse

In a series of interviews with former Basquiat intimates and others, the reactions to the arrival of Atelier Jolie, which opened on 4 December 2023, were nearly identical: It's not the sweeping homage to one of the 20th century's most important artists that it could be, but neither is it a Starbucks.

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Daniel Root: Transcending Closing Time

A new book from East Village photographer Daniel Root, New York Bars at Dawn, captures watering holes in the Lower East Side and across New York City at their most revealing.

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Beggars Banquet at Not for Them

Beggars Banquet a group art show that defies expectations opens Nov. 20, 6 to 9 p.m., at Not For Them, 28 Locust Street, Brooklyn.

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