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The Grass Isn’t Always Greener, 2022, a mixed-media collage on a 1950 Dow Chemical Company magazine advertisement, by Kirsten Stolle, whose work is on view through April 8 at Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina.
©? The artist. Courtesy Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville
“Rosetta Stone,” a photograph with unique burn markings by Tabitha Soren, whose work is on view through March 25 at Laney Contemporary in Savannah, Georgia.
Courtesy the artist and Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
Alpinist, a painting by Peter Doig, whose work is on view through May 29 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, in London.
© The artist
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“You are twenty-one—exactly the same age I was when I had my one and only abortion, in London in 1938. This was way before anyone talked about the ‘right’ to an abortion, and I want to tell you my story to convey how precious a right it is. Abortions then were totally illegal; the very subject was taboo among the well-brought-up English of those days. I wouldn’t have dreamed of consulting anybody in my family, from whom I was estranged and who anyway wouldn’t have been likely to have useful ideas on the subject.”
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