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An Allegory, 1964, a painting by Bob Thompson, whose work is on view through July 8 at 52 Walker, in New York City.
© Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York City. Courtesy 52 Walker, New York City. Collection Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; gift of Thomas Bellinger 72.137
Overtime, a painting by Mikey Yates, whose work is on view through July 1 at Shulamit Nazarian, in Los Angeles.
© The artist. Courtesy the artist and Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles.
The Hunter, a painting by Rune Christensen, whose work is on view through July 2 at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, in Berlin.
Courtesy the artist and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
“Tbilisi still life,” a photograph by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, whose work will be on view with galerie frank elbaz from June 15–19 at Art Basel, in Basel, Switzerland.
Courtesy of the artist; galerie frank elbaz, Paris
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“You are twenty-one—exactly the same age I was when I had my one and only abortion, in London in 1938. This was way before anyone talked about the ‘right’ to an abortion, and I want to tell you my story to convey how precious a right it is. Abortions then were totally illegal; the very subject was taboo among the well-brought-up English of those days. I wouldn’t have dreamed of consulting anybody in my family, from whom I was estranged and who anyway wouldn’t have been likely to have useful ideas on the subject.”
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