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Ecological Art That’s Literally Alive
The artworks in Spora, unfolding over three years at the Swiss Institute, linger in the mind, its interconnections multiplying like spores.
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When Hilma af Klint Found the Soul in Plants
Her Nature Studies invoke the promise of something greater, a direct line from the material world to the spiritual experience that art is presumed to offer.
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A God’s-Eye-View of Earth’s Destruction
Edward Burtynsky's photographs once offered a prescient vision of large-scale anthropogenic changes; now, they feel more and more like a pretext for aesthetic dazzle.
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The Sensual Irreverence of Milly Thompson
Throughout her work, we see women attempting to free themselves from the entanglements of patriarchy.
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Shu Lea Cheang’s Art of Hacking
Cheang is concerned with the ways technology enables commodification and control, from communication to nourishment to sex.
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A Mother and Daughter’s Lifelong Art Collaboration
Nora Naranjo Morse’s colorful sculptures watch over the events and characters in her daughter Eliza’s paintings from their own unique perspectives.
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The Spiritual Modernism of Mestre Didi
The Brazilian artist and Candomblé priest established an international art practice that foregrounded diasporic African perspectives.
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Renée Stout’s Bewitching Circuitry
The magic of Stout’s artworks does not feel contingent on a viewer’s comprehension — it feels auratic, as if emitting an electrical current of meaning.
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Behind a Flight Attendant’s Painted-On Smile
Michelle Im’s disconcerting ceramic figures subvert ornamentalized representations of East Asian femininity.
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Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction
A fundamental part of Overstreet's mission was to break free of the flat, rectangular picture plane and the Eurocentric view of painting that dominated American art.
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Wayne Thiebaud’s Art Is More Than a Piece of Cake
A lot of the enjoyment of Thiebaud’s retrospective is spotting the Easter eggs of earlier art, whether overt, covert, or something more subtle.
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Young Joon Kwak’s Luminescent Bodies
The artist’s magnificent, rhinestone-encrusted cast sculptures tell multiple stories that look at contemporary queer and trans existence.