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Alpinist, a painting by Peter Doig, whose work is on view through May 29 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, in London.
© The artist
Triumph of the Willing (Part I), a painting by Hydeon, whose work was on view last weekend with Ricco/Maresca at the Outsider Art Fair in New York City.
Courtesy the artist and Ricco/Maresca, New York City
Tailoring Freedom – Renty and Delia, 2021, a mixed-media artwork (metal staples on photograph on wood), by Sasha Huber, whose work is on view through March 25 at Autograph, in London.
© Sasha Huber. Courtesy the artist and Tamara Lanier. Original images courtesy the Peabody Museum, Harvard University
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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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