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Art: Architecture/Design COLORS Past and Present

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In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a bold, controversial publication that cannily distilled much of the 1990s' defining culture wars and identity politics. Early issues pulled no punches, taking on both race (with a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II doctored in blackface) and AIDS (President Reagan made over with Kaposi's sarcoma lesions). But the magazine's photo essays also made a point of showing, without sensationalism, how the rest of the world experiences sex, religion, and beauty. This exhibition covers the publication's history up to its current issue: "Money."

– Matt Sussman