Meticulously collaged, Berrío’s canvases impart both exuberance and grief.
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A Home of Armenian Relics Becomes a Space to Heal From Trauma
“My Relic” tells stories of Armenian culture through the lens of female Armenian artists living in the diaspora.
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A Fragrance Bottles Up the Everyday Scents of Former East Germany
Notes of mold and tobacco hit quickly, with raspberry candies cutting through the musk, personifying the feeling of “bittersweet.”
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Unique Folk Art Recreates the World Before the Armenian Genocide
The models recreate a world that no longer exists.
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Off the Record Confronts Our Understanding of Objectivity
A forceful rejection of neutrality, the Guggenheim exhibition unearths the deeply biased natures of media and government systems.
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Laying Down Roots: Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves’s Radical, Botanical Future
Greaves emphasizes the possibilities of planting seeds in the ruins of violent structures.
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Zi Yi Wang’s Full-Body Critiques of Consumerism
A thing like you and me conjures the experience of being trapped in the darkness of manufactured happiness.
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The Almond and Pebble That Inspired a Joan Miró
The two objects, now in the archive of the Fundació Miró Mallorca, inspired a six-foot-tall sculpture.
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The Absurdly Poignant Poems of Sun Ra
Sun Ra’s stanzas are riddles against passive reading.
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Kenneth Tam Creates a New Frame for Asian American Masculinity
Tam’s work always comes back to the body, emphasizing what lays beyond our daily performances.
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Avedon’s Father, My Mother, and Processing Death
People say you should talk to the dying to reassure them, but words felt too pedestrian for this profound space of transition.
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Living and Working in the Korean Diaspora
Ahrong Kim is a masterful ceramic sculptor whose touchstone is a young Asian woman’s head.