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Drawing inspiration from the forbidden baseball technique of moistening the ball with saliva as well as the concept of raw, unfiltered exchanges of ideas, artists Richie Culver and Tyrrell Winston present their first duo exhibition, "Spitball," at Stems Gallery Paris.Fittingly, saliva takes center stage in both artists' respective works. Culver's artwork features watermarks suggestive of saliva behind his expressive graffiti-style sayings -- with his pieces stretching beyond the canvas boundaries, often spilling onto walls, doors and street corners. A notable work reads, "I wanna do as little as possible but still get that mad money," while another challenges the old adage "Less is more" with the phrase "Less is less."On the other hand, Winston's works display saliva traces more prominentl...

The sun and the moon serve as the conceptual framework for Rachel Rose's latest solo exhibition, Good Morning Midnight. Housed at GL Strand in Copenhagen, the American visual artist, known for her kaleidoscopic films, paintings, and sculptures that contemplate themes of mortality and the way in which changing landscapes shape belief systems, will showcase two films that revolve around the passage of time and humanity's relationship with nature.In the first film, Enclosure (2019), Rose sets the scene to 17th century England, in which a group of mischievous travelers scourge farmland from villagers, slaughtering their livestock in the process, while a black orb replaces the sun as "a symbol of the future," according to the artist. The film alludes to the Enclosure Act, ratified around the 17...