Increasingly, though, his energies were devoted to mixed-media drawings in black chalk, watercolour, pen and ink, often depicting Parisian street life: drinkers, gossips, entertainers, railway passengers.

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Her inaugural exhibition featured the Italian design duo Formafantasma, who presented a textile series called Colony, an assemblage of mohair and mixed-media blankets meant as a critique of Italian imperialism in Africa.

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She particularly liked the mixed-media message that might be the next generation of Mondrian-style colorblocking: Instead of chunks of primary colors, a dress or coat might be patchworks of pony hair, snake skin, leather or ostrich feathers, she explained.

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In other words, what you have is trouble, all mixed together, with two-and-a-half major media markets frantically trying to beam a unifying signal across the whole bunch of them.

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Central to this didactic purpose were the installations, the so-called "ensembles, " nonchronological groupings of objects that mixed media, periods and styles, cultures, fine and decorative arts.

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