Critic Jonathan Jones on new work by artist Damien Hirst: "The last time I saw paintings as deluded as Damien Hirst's latest works, the artist's name was Saif al-Islam Gaddafi." And that's just the first sentence.

A painting depicting the South African president, Jacob Zuma, with his genitals exposed has been vandalized, leading to ugly scenes at an art gallery in Johannesburg.

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  • Liena Vayzman

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    Liena Vayzman's work combines scholarship, art, and activism. She earned a PhD in the History of Art at Yale University and has written on Richard Prince, Alice Austen, Maya Deren, and the Société Anonyme. Vayzman's work had been exhibited at Glassbox, Paris; Duchess Anne Hotel, Nantes; Root Division, RayKo and ATA, San Francisco; Wartburg College Art Gallery, Iowa; the Baltimore Erotic Arts Festival; Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Georgia; and Grunert Gasser, New York. She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, the New School, and San Jose State University. She currently serves as Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate with the Yale Women Faculty Forum.

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