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George Condo, Couple on Blue Striped Chair, 2005

This summer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is hosting a major exhibition of work by the American artist George Condo in Europe. ‘George Condo: Mental States’.

The show opens next week on June 25 and closes on September 25, 2011.

Andrea Pritschow, HP1e–HP62d, 2009–2011

Via art-magazin.

Damien Deroubaix, Siege of power, 2002

Alexi Worth, The Formalists, 2008

On view December 9, 2010 - January 29, 2011 as part of the exhibition Private Future curated by Michael Cline at the gallery Marc Jancou Contemporary in New York. Via re-title.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Charles Henri Ford, Paris, 1935

An interesting article in The Guardian reports on censorship, the American Catholic League and Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, a show currently running in Washington DC that looks at art history from a homosexual perspective.

Last week, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery withdrew from Hide/Seek a video by the artist David Wojnarowicz, Fire in My Belly, which includes a crucifix covered in ants, symbolising the suffering of people with Aids; Wojnarowicz died of the disease in 1992.

"When," Curator Jonathan Katz asks, "will the decent majority of Americans stand against a fringe that sees censorship as a replacement for debate?"

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Until 1 January.

by Miss Van (via.)