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Bansie Vasvani

Bansie Vasvani is an independent art critic with a focus on Asian and other non-Western art practices. She lives in New York City.

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A Hidden Flaneur Who Records the Minutiae of Street Life

by Bansie Vasvani October 19, 2017

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.

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An Archipelago of Precariousness at the Yokohama Trienniale

by Bansie Vasvani October 13, 2017

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

by Bansie Vasvani July 20, 2017

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

by Bansie Vasvani May 8, 2017May 7, 2017

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

by Bansie Vasvani May 4, 2017May 5, 2017

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

by Bansie Vasvani April 20, 2017April 21, 2017

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

by Bansie Vasvani March 2, 2017

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

by Bansie Vasvani January 23, 2017January 23, 2017

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

by Bansie Vasvani December 26, 2016December 23, 2016

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

by Bansie Vasvani November 30, 2016December 19, 2016

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

by Bansie Vasvani November 2, 2016November 2, 2016

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

by Bansie Vasvani October 21, 2016

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.

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