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"description": "Las Meninas draws on traditions throughout global art and culture to address issues surrounding the female body, race, beauty, and community. The work\u2019s skirted form conjures figures from the Spanish Golden Age painting Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velazquez, apparel worn in the Afro-Brazilian religious tradition candombl\u00e9, and Mousgoum buildings in Cameroon. The white-glazed terracotta torso, alluding to sacred and secular traditions of body painting, leads to a faceless head, incorporating both figuration and abstraction.",
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"citation": "Leigh, Simone. \"Portfolio: Simone Leigh.\" In Public Servants: Art and the Crises of the Common Good, edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon, 222-227. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016.",
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"citation": "Conde, Maryse, Jota Mombaca, and Peggy Piesche. We Don't Need Another Hero:10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Berlin: Distanz, 2018.",
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"citation": "Trigger: Gender As a Tool and a Weapon. Edited by Johanna Burton and Natalie Bell. New York: New Museum, 2017.",
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"citation": "Elderton, Louisa, and Rebecca Morrill, eds. Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic in Contemporary Art. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2017.",
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"citation": "Cafritz, Peggy Cooper, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and Charmaine Picard. Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity : an African American Life in Art : the Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz. 2018.",
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"citation": "Fellah, Nadiah Rivera. \u201cSimone Leigh: The artist's Las Meninas, acquired last year, invites examination of the relationship between artist, subject, and viewer.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 14-15.",
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"citation": "\"New Take on the New: A comprehensive reinstallation of the galleries of contemporary art offers fresh viewpoints on the art of our time.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 2 (Spring 2021): Cover, 4-9.",
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"citation": "Lee, Key Jo, and William Griswold. Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
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"citation": "\"Supporter Story: Remembering Toby Lewis.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 64, no. 1 (2024): 33-34.",
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