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How Takako Yamaguchi Subverts the Seascape
The Los Angeles artist practices what she calls “abstraction in reverse,” starting from basic shapes to construct landscapes.
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In the Shadow of Ruth Asawa
Shadows aren’t an afterthought in her work, but another dimension of it — another way one thing can contain or serialize into an infinity.
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The Whitney’s Surrealism Show Is a Mindfuck
I wish Sixties Surreal focused more on destabilizing the concept of “real” than reifying it.
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Edward Gorey Killed His Darlings
A show at the Society of Illustrators demonstrates his mastery at turning ghastly scenarios deadpan and winkingly absurd.
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Junk Food for the One Percent
In A Match Made in Heaven, Katherine Bernhardt and Jeremy Scott are so simpatico that the intertwining of their art feels natural — even divine.
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The Propaganda Dilemma
Inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’s infographics about the lives of Black people after Emancipation, an exhibition at New York’s Print Center complicates our reading of data.
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A Funkier, Feminist Form of Pattern and Decoration
Judy Ledgerwood turns the decorous decorum of Pattern & Decoration into something fanciful, forthright, and frankly vulgar.
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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.