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Weighing Ai Weiwei's Work Amid Butterflies and Botanical Life
Does the political content of his art translate to a botanical garden and sculpture park in Michigan?
Sarah Rose Sharp
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A Ceramicist Displays His Private Experiments in Clay
At Volume Gallery, Anders Ruhwald is showing small, colorful ceramics that don't generally leave his studio.
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Existential Musings from Nashville’s New Hybrid Museum Hotel
At 21c, where does the art end and the hotel begin?
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A Show of Lebanese Art Suffused with the Longing of Exile
At Angela Meleca Gallery, five contemporary Lebanese artists consider their relationships to their home country.
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A Spectacular Cross Section of Contemporary Indian Art
Visions from India, the newest exhibition from the Pizzuti Collection, is a celebration of material abundance.
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Discovering Honoré Sharrer, an Eclipsed 20th-Century Surrealist Painter
A survey at the Columbus Museum of Art spotlights the remarkable work of the American artist, who was dogged in her convictions and a master of her medium.
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A Botanical Garden Blooms with Chagall
It is no small feat that Marie Selby Botanical Gardens managed to provide a new perspective on an exhaustively studied painter and perennial favorite of the art world.
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Miniature Dioramas That Contain the Chaos of the World
From a patchwork of shantytowns to retail spaces, Tracey Snelling's miniature worlds describe the disorder of life and offer a compelling argument that the way we inhabit space is subjective.
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A Stroll Through a Forest of Ribbons That Simulates Synesthesia
Anne Patterson's installation Pathless Woods at the Ringling Museum of Art suggests a walk through the woods, despite having none of the literal characteristics of the outdoors.
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From Bananas to Bills, an Artist Peels Back the Layers of the Global Economy
Adriana Martínez, who has organized a multi-faceted collective in Bogotá, focuses on the geopolitical implications of resource distribution in her art.
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Envisioning Democratic Design at a French Biennial
A visit to the 2017 Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne offers an important reminder that we're surrounded by designs created to encourage some behaviors and obstruct others.
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Three Artists Visualize the Uneasy Cohabitation of Humans and Nature
A show at Detroit's Wasserman Projects brings together Willy Verginer, Christer Karlstad, and Jason DeMarte, all of whom consider our relationship to the environment.