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An untitled painting by Luchita Hurtado, whose work is on view in the exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, in Texas.
© The artist
“Lindsay’s Scarf” and “Gem’s Arm,” photographs by Rahim Fortune, whose book I can’t stand to see you cry was published last year by Loose Joints. Fortune’s work will be on view from July 4 through August 28 at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, in France.
© The artist. Courtesy Sasha Wolf Projects, New York City
Huggermugger, a painting by Lyn Liu, whose work is on view through August 12 at Kasmin Gallery, in New York City.
Courtesy the artist
Vishnu Dreaming of Brahma Creating the Universe [Indic manuscript leaf c. 17th-18th c.], Daihannya-Kyō (The Sutra of Great Wisdom) [Japanese manuscript page; gold ink on indigo-dyed paper 1185-1392], and The Lotus Sūtra [Manuscript leaf, hand-copied by Joyen (Japanese Priest) 1834], mixed-media artworks by David Orr, whose work is on view through July 9 at Tibet House, in New York City.
© The artist
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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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