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A Chinese Museum Invites Artists to Respond to the Local Landscape
"Mountain Sites" is a merry chase of an exhibition that remains tuned in to the presence and the (often anachronistic) contemporaneity of its locality.
Xin Wang
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Uterus Man, Pelvis Chariot, and the Irreverent Video Games of Lu Yang
If there’s any space that both parallels and accommodates Lu Yang’s highly exhilarating and provocative works, it's a sprawling arcade, a cornucopia of weirdness and inappropriate ideas.
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The Unnatural Wonders of Japan’s Influential Rinpa Aesthetic
I always consider it fortunate that at institutions like the Metropolitan Museum, exhibitions continue to argue eloquently that art has evolved along manifold trajectories before postmodern discourses recognized it as so. In that vein, one of the highlights of the fall museum season, Designing Natur
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Occupying Minds, Not Streets
Mounting an exhibition anywhere in the neighborhood of occupation aesthetics can be precarious nowadays, for people are increasingly fed up with the same reiterations of ideological conceptualism and the ultra–politically correct, derivative works that skim the surface of real world problems precipi