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Petrit Halilaj’s Opera of Kosovan Memory and Myth
Through his fantastical vignettes, Halilaj suggests curiosity about others as a way to neutralize the forces that lead to difference-based violence.
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An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove’s Brilliance
A smaller survey would have allowed for something more meaningful than just showing what Bove has been doing for the past decades.
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The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial
It felt like the world as I experience it: no clear path, but enough moments of beauty to convince me to put one foot in front of the other.
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Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body
Her organic sculptures convey a quiet power, the faceless anonymity of multitudes transformed into a collective oneness.
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Everyday Traces of NYC’s SWANA Diaspora
An exhibition at NYPL offers a window into life within this paradox where invisibility and visibility are two sides of the same coin.
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Wally Hedrick Protested War With Sex
The countercultural San Francisco artist specialized in antiwar art and the transcendent potential of sex in the era of flower power.
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The Disappearing Art of Iberian Democracy
The varied, confrontational works on view at Madrid's La Casa Encendida are reminders of the intense labor required to protect liberty.
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A Cold Plunge Into Glenn Ligon’s Blue
New works exemplify a line of inquiry central to the artist’s practice: How might language and color merge to birth figuration?
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Squeak Carnwath Paints Her Own Path
This artist rejects the notion that paint as a medium inevitably becomes exhausted, incapable of making something, however broken it may be.
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Marigold Santos Takes Root
She uses epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants without harming them — as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form.
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The Self-Invention of Helene Schjerfbeck
The Finnish artist’s first major exhibition in the US is a moving and harrowing document of her growth, as well as the psychic and physical ravages of aging.
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We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives
The best work in the Bronx Museum’s biennial indicates aspirations beyond this time and place.