Five years in the making, Edward and Nancy Kienholz's installation The Hoerengracht captures the essence of Amsterdam's Red Light District of days past. A play on words, The Hoerengracht translates from Dutch to "the Whores' Canal" and references the Herengracht (Gentlemen's Canal), a prestigious Amsterdam thoroughfare. The artist couple made the work, a massive installation that recreates a section of the infamous Wallen district, while living in Berlin in the 1980s. Researched in the brothels of sex workers and constructed from materials found in flea markets and salvage yards, it depicts a provocative realm with empathy and wit.
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A star of the emerging South African photography scene, Zwelethu Mthethwa is widely celebrated for his powerful portraits of poor blacks living and working on the periphery of society. His photographs of colorful beds in hostels for migrant workers and rural settlers in their cardboard and corrugated-metal shacks, as well as his pictures of laborers in sugarcane fields, factories, and mining areas, have been shown around the world. Inner Views, currently on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem, brings together three series of his work that explore domestic life under extreme conditions.
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