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78 culturedmag.com This month, Lorna Simpson opens her self-titled solo show at Salon 94. Here, Antwaun Sargent captures the artist's intentions in her own words. "I've been thinking about moving in this direction for the last couple of years. But I know so many amazing painters and I was a little hesitant! I kind of said to myself, Just try it and see what happens. It's a venture in using photographic imagery and working in ink because I've been doing these collages and working with ink for five years. It's an evolution of a branch of my collage work that I decided to up in scale and play with the content a little differently. What's interesting about it as an activity—to go through all of these magazines from the Civil Rights era through the '70s—is it reveals a very parallel world to the one we are living in now politically. We are still living some of that legacy now. The collages are a way to work intuitively and then that process becomes a jumping-off point to think about the paintings, and how they function. I did one six months ago called Then and Now, which has a 1967 image with the tension of the police coming into a city and shutting it down. You can see that there were black protestors, which is reminiscent of Ferguson. Although that image is from a completely different era, it echoes two summers ago, and became the context for that particular painting." SALON94.COM When Nobu Hotel Miami Beach opens this fall, the resort will have a Blue Chip art collection to match its storied stature. Richard Prince, Rob Pruitt and Nate Lowman will all have pieces on view thanks to the Brant Foundation, which plans to loan the hotel a rotating assortment of work. A site-specific installation by Josh Smith will inaugurate the space, as well—adding a sense of permanence to the contemporary collection. EDENROCMIAMI.COM "Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb," said artist Jean Arp, just one of the three 20th-century masters celebrated in "Schwitters Miró Arp" at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel beginning in October. Fresh off its success at the gallery's Zurich branch, the show's transformative triumvirate is highlighted for contributions to Dada and Surrealism, including more than 100 paintings, collages and assemblages culled from museums on both sides of the Atlantic as well as private collections. HAUSERWIRTHSCHIMMEL.COM Nate Lowman's Trash Landing Marilyn #11, 2011 PHOTO BY JAMES WANG Jean Arp's Tête; Lèvres écossaises, 1927