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COLORS Magazine
Apr 18, 2008 – May 16, 2008
Mondays–Fridays (9am–5pm)
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
425 Washington St
Suite 200
415.788.7142
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."
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