Given the extent and duration of Miranda July's fame among the planet's hip cognoscenti, it is surprising that the first gallery exhibition dedicated to the protean, media-straddling American artist did not open until a couple of weeks after she turned 50 in February 2024. The location was not in her native USA — born in Vermont as Miranda Grossinger, she was raised in the academic/intellectual/bohemian California enclave of Berkeley — but in Milan, at the Osservatorio gallery of Fondazione Prada.

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