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A Hidden Flaneur Who Records the Minutiae of Street Life
Mikiko Hara made a conscious decision to discard reliance on the viewfinder, which led to a body of work that is true to her intention to capture street life as a continuous process.
Bansie Vasvani
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An Archipelago of Precariousness at the Yokohama Trienniale
The work installed in the Yokohama Triennial demonstrate that issues of crisis regarding nationalism, poverty, the fallout of war, and natural disasters should evoke our concern.
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Carnal Humans and Bookish Animals Cohabitate in a Sprawling Video Installation
At Tyler Rollins Fine Art, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook’s complex, fragmented narrative features goats being read French philosophy and horses getting lectured on Plato.
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Tracing the Rise of Conceptual Art in the UAE
This notion of playfulness is the crucial lens through which to view this survey exhibition of artists from the United Arab Emirates
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Perspectives on Female Identity, Inspired by Nancy Spero
An exhibition at Wave Hill features artists from Australia to the Dominican Republic who, like Spero, make work that subverts archetypal depictions of women.
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Self-Portraits of the Artist as Historical African Figures
In his debut US exhibition, Omar Victor Diop inserts conspicuously absent historical black male figures into Western art.
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An Indonesian Artist Paints Fundamentalists as Buffoons and Monkeys
Agus Suwage’s deeply personal works never stop questioning and working to upend oppression.
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At the Shanghai Biennale, a Desire to Disrupt the Status Quo
At this year's Shanghai Biennale, curated by the Raqs Media Collective, artists question and disrupt the status quo in multiple ways, presenting the world with new possibilities.
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The Amorphous Taipei Biennial Tackles Nostalgia and Environmental Despair
Many of the individual pieces have merit, but the works neither shed light on one another nor enable a coherent dialogue.
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An Artist Invites Viewers to Attain Stillness of Mind Together
Kimsooja’s practice is an attempt to offer some resolution in these times of war, paranoia, fear, and discrimination.
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Aboriginal Women Artists and Their Visions of Infinity
These paintings, filled with traditional abstract Aboriginal iconography denoting nature, spirits, and a way of life that has been passed down for generations, are a wonder.
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Two Iconoclasts Offer a Fuller Picture of Korean Modernism
Exhibitions in Seoul devoted to Wook-kyung Choi and Yong-Ik Kim give a sense of Korean artists' vibrant responses to the monochrome Dansaekhwa movement of the 1970s.