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Without A Sound, a painting by Loren Erdrich, whose work is on view through July 13 at SHRINE, in Los Angeles.
Courtesy the artist and SHRINE
Ars Gratia Artis, a painting by Walton Ford, whose work is on view through October 20 at the Morgan Library & Museum, in New York City, and through September 22 at Ateneo Veneto, in Venice, Italy.
© The artist. Courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum, New York City
“Lawn Chair Catapult,” a photograph by Adam Ekberg, whose work is on view through July 7 as part of the exhibition New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography, at the Worcester Art Museum, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Courtesy of the artist and CLAMP, New York City
Sink or Swim, a painting by Amy Bennett, whose work is on view through July 3 at Miles McEnery Gallery, in New York City.
© The artist. Courtesy Miles McEnery Gallery, in New York City
“Thjorsá River #2, Southern Region, Iceland,” a photograph by Edward Burtynsky, whose work is on view through June 8 at Nicholas Metivier Gallery, in Toronto.
© The artist. Courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
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T.D. Allman, who died last month, reported on the U.S.-led repression of the guerilla insurgency in El Salvador in 1981, when America’s support for that country’s military dictatorship was at its height. “However diligently one searched for significance,” he wrote, “one found only terrorized, hapless people — abused, barefoot women with no food or medicine for their malnourished children; landless, jobless, illiterate men and boys fleeing for their lives from the ‘security forces’ of their own national government; mutilated bodies beside the road.”
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