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  1. Gordon Welters for The New York Times

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    Documenta Kassel: Using Art as Their Witness

    A range of projects in Documenta 14 show that art can potentially change history, not just reflect it. And we have serious things to think about.

    1. Michael Nagle for The New York Times

      Art Review

      From Cuba, a Stolen Myth

      There is nothing simple about the work of Belkis Ayón, a printmaker who drew her inspiration from the Abaquá, a secret male society with an origin story based on female betrayal.

    2. Sébastien Roy

      Critic's Notebook

      Expo 2017: Utopia, Rebooted

      Five exhibitions celebrate Expo 67, revisiting that watershed moment of a great futuristic fair in Montreal, 50 years ago.

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    Courtesy of the artist, Elizabeth Dee New York, and acb Gallery, Budapest

    From Hungary, the Secret Language of a Silenced People

    The political and often darkly comic art of this country in the 1960s and ’70s came out of a world of house parties and private handshakes.

  2. Betty Parsons Foundation and Alexander Gray Associates, New York

    What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week

    New layers to the art of Betty Parsons; the painter Peter Shear gets his first New York solo show; and Leidy Churchman responds to the threat of the internet.

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    All Rights Reserved, Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York; All Rights Reserved, Hal Woodruff/Licensed by VAGA, New York; Stephanie Diani for The New York Times

    If These Walls Could Talk? They Do

    The playwright Lynn Nottage’s Brooklyn house is a standing-room-only theater-in-the-round of African-American art: its contents and its discontents.

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    Jeff Koons Sent Paris Flowers. Can It Find the Right Vase?

    The artist donated his large sculpture “Bouquet of Tulips” to honor terrorism victims. The project is stuck in red tape, and its critics wish it would disappear.