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Cacti at the Huntington Library Desert Botanical Garden.

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Matthew Darbyshire’s “Suite” at Lisa Cooley in New York. [Contemporary Art Daily]

Here’s a review of “Alec Soth: Songbook”  on view at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. The exhibition shows photographs taken on the artist’s multi-year road trip, during which he took on the role of a small-town reporter at a fake newspaper in order to visually record 21st century communities. [Hyperallergic]

Chicago-based artist Jackie Kazarian has created a Guernica-style mural to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman troops. [Reuters]

The Whitney’s first exhibition in its new Meatpacking District location will be called “America Is Hard to See.” The museum will reopen on May 1. [The New York Times]

Read this interview with Cory Arcangel ahead of his first solo exhibition in Italy, called “This is all so crazy, everybody seems so famous.” [Dazed Digital]

Ed Ruscha is going to contribute to a 30-day festival at the Barbican with food art—specifically, omelette with cactus. [The Independent]

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Coca-Cola bottle, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta is currently showing a selection of Andy Warhol’s Coca-Cola pieces as part of the exhibition “The Coca-Cola Bottle: An American Icon At 100.” [Forbes]

Dubai’s coolest art district is located on Alserkal Avenue in the Al Quoz neighborhood. [Huffington Post]