Chuck Close at Pace

Just when you think you know everything there is to know about Chuck Close, he turns around and surprises you. His primary-color collages grab your attention as you enter his current show, “Red Yellow Blue” at Pace downtown, and for good reason. The subject is Close himself, but he’s reinvented the game via Matisse’s cutouts

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African Diaspora: Valentino S/S ’16

Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli were thinking deeply about Africa when they were designing for Spring, and not on a whim. For more than a year, tens of thousands of refugees from Senegal, Nigeria, Eritrea, Mali, Gambia, and elsewhere have been making the harrowing journey across the Mediterranean to southern Italy. Packed into unseaworthy

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3-D Picasso

Picasso Sculpture is a sweeping survey of Pablo Picasso’s innovative and influential work in three dimensions. This will be the first such museum exhibition in the United States in nearly half a century. Over the course of his long career, Picasso devoted himself to sculpture wholeheartedly, if episodically, using both traditional and unconventional materials and

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