Art Review
Kaari Upson’s Haunted Dollhouse
A retrospective projects the fear that the world is not the nice place we want it to be, no matter how much we play pretend.
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The Video Game of Life
In Lu Yang’s hypnotic arcade, Buddhist cosmology refracts through gaming culture.
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For Duane Linklater, It’s a Buffalo’s World
The Omaskêko Cree artist ties the well-being of the animals to that of the Indigenous people with whom they have long lived symbiotically — not in nostalgic terms, but in futurist ones.
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Vaginal Davis Is Queercore's Fairy Godmother
For the gender-bending artist, size matters — just not in the way you think, suggests a new survey at MoMA PS1.
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How Textiles Weave Together the Cycle of Life
Four exhibitions currently up in Chicago each take a unique approach to the possibilities of working with textiles today, some with humor, others with gravitas.
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A Tandem Dance of the Seen and Imagined
Paintings by Abigail Dudley and sculptures by Elise Siegel showcase their absorption with oil paint and clay, respectively.
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Tapestries That Contain the World
Nour Jaouda creates a patchwork space where history, memory, and landscape are made, mourned, and ever-returning.
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The Explosive Ecstasy of June Leaf
A retrospective leaves you feeling as though you have experienced a life as well as a body of work.
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George Morrison Painted a Different Picture of Abstract Expressionism
The Ojibwe artist was active in New York's midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today.
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Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane
An installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument.
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Life’s Hidden Dramas in the Art of Walter Sickert
Sickert didn’t go in for glamour or flattery and the subjects of many of his best works are things seen off to the side, a bit inconsequential.
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Lygia Pape Wants You to Participate
Pape’s work endures because it makes us feel collectivity as a physical condition rather than a concept.