It is not surprising that a music star would have an exhibition at an art gallery. What is surprising is how compelling and meaningful this show, by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, really is.
Gregory Volk
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The Cosmic Vessels of an Adventurous Glass Artist
Josiah McElheny’s glass vessels concentrate the ethereal and boundless into the finite and physical.
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Ragnar Kjartansson’s Panorama of Love and Death
The artist’s Death Is Elsewhere conveys an understanding that humans — relatively recent additions to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet — will come and go. The planet will remain.
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Four Spots in the Venice Biennale to Stop You in Your Tracks
The Biennale’s system of national pavilions may be an outdated relic, but it does succeed in putting a spotlight on countries that typically receive scant art world attention.
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Nina Katchadourian Makes a World on an Airplane Seat Tray
Katchadourian excels at investing commonplace, inanimate objects with vitality and soulfulness.
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Nari Ward’s Angels in America
Ward doesn’t just utilize found objects; he communicates with them — intellectually, visually, soulfully.
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The Extraordinary Marcia Hafif
For Hafif, painting was a meditative act, a clarifying ritual.
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The Overdue Skyrocketing of Simone Leigh
Simone Leigh’s chief subject is, in her own terms, “black female subjectivity,” hardly a predominant theme in an art world that has skewed way white and male since its inception.
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Yayoi Kusama’s Mesmerizing, Meditative Garden
Kusama’s installation connects with a broad reach of Rockaway’s history, as well as the impact of climate change on the area.
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Tomás Saraceno’s Sculptures Touch the Sky
Strapped into a harness beneath Saraceno’s inflated sculpture, we are carried aloft, peaceful and ecstatic, merging with the air.
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From the Green Market to the Gallery Wall
Karin Sander’s Kitchen Pieces draw your attention to the rhythmic ridges of an acorn squash, the bumpy peel of an orange, and the spiky surface of a yellow dragon fruit.
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Carrie Moyer Reaches for the Stars
Moyer’s new paintings revel in color and visual pleasure, scrambling distinctions between abstraction and representation.