Lisson Gallery says the show was postponed; the artist says it was “effectively canceled.”
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Maya Pontone (she/her) is a Staff News Writer at Hyperallergic. Originally from Northern New Jersey, she currently resides in Brooklyn, where she covers daily news, both within and outside New York City. Maya received her BS in journalism with a political science minor from Emerson College in Boston, MA.
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