His appetite for complexity was increasingly indulged as a means of branding cities and institutions, and his novel forms were deployed as blunt metaphors to absorb and obscure contradictions rather than negotiate them in material and spatial terms.
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Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
The custodian of the maison’s some 20,000 documents, fragments, and objects is the effervescent Sophie Rouart, who indulged me in pulling any style of my choosing.
But later that month, after several employees talked about quitting, the plan was abandoned.
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Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
On Israel, which fringes on both the Left and the Right have increasingly abandoned, Gallego questioned those who want to defund defensive support to the Middle Eastern nation.
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Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Apr. 2026
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