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The American Midwest as Bastion for New Nordic Tradition
These contemporary interpretations acknowledge artistic roots while building new forms, and each work opens up portals into other lineages.
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David Hammons Gets at the Why? of It
His elegantly simple exhibition — just darkness and flashlights — prompts a rethinking of what we consider worthy art.
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The Unexpected Beauty of Detritus
Through his art, Yuji Agematsu brings reverence and discipline to this job of living, and acknowledges each human’s durational condition.
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Dakota Mace’s Quiet Enactment of Diné Philosophy
The artist’s show at SITE Santa Fe shows how Indigenous thought and contemporary exhibition-making can co-exist without compromise.
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New York University MFA Students Rethink the Body
This year’s class comes up with novel ways to think about the bodies we inhabit, the stresses they carry, and their limits of perception.
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Fifteen Shows in One at Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies
This beast of an exhibition includes kinky live performances, site-specific installations, and a prevailing feeling of joyousness.
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One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Art
An exhibition argues that human production — its surplus and waste — is a rising influential force in contemporary art.
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Global Tourism Was Built on Headless Blemmyes
The Book of Marvels is the kind of show that’s hard to avoid at archival art institutions, wherein problematic historical content, aesthetic appeal, and fantasy all intersect.
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An Exhibition That Looks to the Bronx for Inspiration
“Working Knowledge” is deeply attuned to the Bronx community it emerges from — an attentiveness that greatly enhances its significance.
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Will the Real Cimabue Please Stand Up?
The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits.
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The UCLA MFA Show Proves We’ve Got to Learn From Students
Far from perfect, their work illustrates the kind of mess, ambition, and attention that many artists would be lucky to have.
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When Modernity Grabbed Poetry By Its Heels
Feeling, intuiting the swing, sway, and pressures of life, with all its tumult, its blare, its bounce, and its heave, were what really counted in modern poetry.