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“Reza Abdoh” (at moma PS1) is the first large-scale retrospective devoted to this Iranian-born spinner of epic, omnivorous tales about queerness, aids, American TV and violence, the cult of celebrity, and the gay child’s relationship to the patriarchy. Co-curated by the museum’s director, Klaus Biesenbach, and Negar Azimi, Tiffany Malakooti, and Babak Radboy, of Bidoun, the show is a marvel of archival research and curatorial empathy, paying the kind of attention that Abdoh craved for most of his professional life but had trouble receiving.

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