Presidential debate jokes always seem to write themselves, but Tuesday night’s wrangle yielded some particularly stellar memes to take the edge off as our grim political prospects look bleaker by the day.
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September 12, 2024

Good morning! Presidential debate jokes always seem to write themselves, but Tuesday night’s wrangle yielded some particularly stellar memes to take the edge off as our grim political prospects look bleaker by the day. Staff Reporter Rhea Nayyar collected the highlights for you below.

Meanwhile, Isa Segalovich visits a new exhibition in Chicago that brings together Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of New York City, highlighting an unsung component of the artist’s extensive oeuvre beyond her beloved odes to the Southwest.

Sink your teeth into more stories below, including a prismatic mural of hand-painted tiles by Joyce Kozloff that’s at risk of deterioration, Bloomsbury Group gardens, and critic John Yau on what he calls the “homegrown surrealism” in painter Jimmy Gordon’s debut New York show.

— Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor

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Presidential Debate Memes So We Can Laugh to Keep From Crying

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First Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York Paintings Now on View in Chicago

Overlooked by NY institutions and the male art world, the artist’s experimental depictions of skyscrapers get their own exhibition a century later. | Isabella Segalovich

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Jimmy Gordon’s Homegrown Surrealism

The artist, a pioneering member of Lexington’s LGBTQ+ art world, used circus and sideshow imagery to create poignant meditations on isolation. | John Yau

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The institution’s final show embodies its ethos: inviting viewers to deepen their connections with the world around them via contemplation of art from the region. | Livia Caligor

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A Garden of One’s Own

An exhibition explores the gardens of Bloomsbury Group members Lady Ottoline Morrell, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, and Vita Sackville-West. | Anna Souter

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