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• Death Row’s Last Meals Anchor a Museum-Wide Survey of Incarceration Art

  07-11-2026 14:40 via ARTnews.com
  
  Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as “Angola” for the slave plantation that once occupied its land, lies at the dead end of Highway 66.Past the gate, the road continues—invitation permitting—through 18,000 acres of penal farmland punctuated by gun towers, barbed-wire enclosures, and incarcerated men picking crops on the so-called farm line. America’s largest maximum-security prison, long notorious for its reliance on solitary confinement, Angola runs on the forgotten.Gary Tyler, a fi
  
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• How Going Blind Made Doris Salcedo’s Art Bigger and Better

  07-11-2026 11:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  Doris Salcedo is best known for her moving “anti-monuments,” gigantic artworks—or sometimes negative spaces—that propose new ways to commemorate atrocities. Always, she focuses on the victims’ perspectives. Her best-known work, Shibboleth (2007), installed in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, comprised one giant, scar-like crack in the concrete, rerouting foot traffic in a manner that evoked the jarring disruption of borders more broadly.The Colombian artist began working at such a monumen
  
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• A New Hudson Valley Art Space Promises to Be As Accessible as It Is In Flux

  07-11-2026 00:16 via ARTnews.com
  
  Less than two blocks from the Katonah train station stands a nondescript, gray two-story building on one of the main drags of this Hudson Valley town. Emblazoned in a kerned-out serif font, its name, Branchline, belies what awaits inside: a public-facing exhibition space for the Gochman Family Collection (GFC).Established just five years ago, the GFC has already become one of the world’s leading collections of contemporary Indigenous art, with more than 850 works. Until now, works from the GFC
  
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