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Artforum International, September, 2001 by Dailey, Meghan
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IT'S A BIG YEAR FOR BRAZIL. AFTER all, not everyone gets to celebrate a 500th birthday. Along with the Guggenheim's all-out bash (see p. 65), the festivities include two relatively small though decidedly ambitious shows of contemporary art. At El Museo del Barrio in New York, the evocatively titled "O Flo da Trama/ The Thread Unraveled" focuses on recent Brazilian art that investigates the power of fabric, weaving, knitting, and sewing to express social and personal narratives (Oct.
13-Feb. 3). And in Washington, DC, the twenty-five artists in "Virgin Territory" ...
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