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Artists Take On Global Migration: 'It's Hard To Watch And It's Hard Not To Watch'

An exhibition in Washington, D.C., features some 75 works — paintings, photographs, videos and installations — reflecting on displacement and relocation. Many of the artists are immigrants themselves.
Men wait to board a non-existent plane in Adrian Paci's 2007 video,<em> Centro di permanenza temporanea (Temporary Detention Center).</em>

A 10-minute drive from the White House — where immigration has a top spot on the President's "to-do" list — a museum has filled three of its floors with artists' reactions to displacement, relocation and flight.

at The Phillips Collection features some 75 paintings, photographs, videos and installations exploring the global refugee crisis. The works were chosen by curators from the New

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