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During the 1980s, General Idea made art about non-normative sexual and gender identity.
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Mitchell-Innes & Nash Now Represents the Estate of General Idea
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Gay nightlife gave rise to the drag ball as an underground simulation of female celebrity. General Idea, the Toronto-based art collective, did something similar with its Miss General Idea pageant, tho…
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Bill Arning reflects on the last year's highlights of artistic life in Houston and its orbit
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Pre-P.C.: AA Bronson Republishes His Famous Erotica
Artist AA Bronson (born Michael Tims) was a founding member of the Toronto art collective General Idea (1969–1994), who published seminal artist magazine File Megazine and founded the artist…
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