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Hank Willis Thomas frequently repurposes imagery from popular culture, especially as it pertains to race and representation. A Suspension of Hostilities (2019 ) faithfully replicate the iconic muscle car from the 1980’s hit TV show The Dukes of Hazzard. Named the General Lee after Robert E. Lee, the car was famous for its airborne leaps along the hilly Georgia back roads, with the characters of Bo and Luke Duke at the wheel, typically in flight from the local law.
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Photos By Dave De Armas, Courtesy of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
If you’ve ever stepped into the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the now-closed Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan, you already know how transporting the experience can be. This serene, lamplit installation — more spiritual refuge than exhibit — offered a peaceful escape from the chaos of the city for over a decade. Now, Brooklyn gets its turn to host this unique, immersive installation.
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This carving of the face of Jesus was created using Baltic Amber, which is petrified tree sap that hardens over centuries and becomes a coveted gemstone. I saw a ton of amber artworks when I was on a European tour of the Baltic capitals last summer, which is a trip I would recommend to anyone with enough to cash to throw down.
Photographed in The Cloisters Museum in Upper Manhattan
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It’s been more than a few months since the Stephen Romano Gallery closed its location in Dumbo and went in search of a new home, and it has been sorely missed; not only for its unique exhibits of engaging art, and the cutting-edge artists that Romano goes out of his way to promote and support, but for the invaluable sense of community he has helped to cultivate among artists, writers, collectors and fans – which is just indispensable.
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