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Do Ho Suh Picks Up the Pieces
The artist’s imaginative, iterative artworks emphasize the loss that accompanies perpetual displacement — even the kind created by art world success.
Claudia Ross
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What Happens When Creation Is Destruction?
The art of Cai Guo-Qiang and Gustav Metzger illuminates a problem in art-making today: What happens when creative pursuits, in fact, destroy?
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Divya Mehra Makes the Machinery of History Visible
The artist’s works force theatrical encounters with metaphors for colonization or display the same violence actualized against discrete bodies.
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The Winking Irony of “Ecological” Luxury
The Haas Brothers’ witty functional sculptures alluding to ecology proffer an environment that is knowingly — and laughably — unrealistic.
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UCI MFAs Challenge Institutional Display
The inquiries of three recent MFA graduates illuminate what much of the art world, easily seduced by decorative abstraction, misses.
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The Alienated Aesthetics of USC’s Student Exhibition
Across multiple media, USC art students’ works paired meditations on discomfort, isolation, and technology with an impressive aesthetic rigor.
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ArtCenter MFAs Find New Beginnings in Past Technology
Artworks by the students feel delightfully provisional, like statements of intent toward unrealized future creations — but no less meaningful.
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UCLA’s MFAs Take On Power Structures
While some of the works lack the finesse of more seasoned veterans, these artists have cultivated firm, incisive critiques of the powers that be.
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Nora Turato Makes Collective Angst Creative
The artist unveils the frenzied, emotional underpinnings of consumption, transforming collective angst into her own creative product.
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The Violent Sublime of Wanda Koop’s Paintings
Koop both illuminates and conceals expressions of power, aestheticizing and making visible Russia’s violent war on Ukraine.