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Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s Personal I Ching
The artist is synthesizing the divergent cultural histories of Western oil painting and Eastern ink painting into one.
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Kamrooz Aram Breaks Down the Grid
Rather than deconstruct Western modernism or reinsert Islamic visual idioms, the artist loosens the grip of the grid.
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A Palestinian-American Photographer’s Intimate Gaze
Dean Majd captured images of his inner circle for a decade, deconstructing performances of masculinity in the process.
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Juan Uslé’s Childhood Shipwrecks
A new retrospective at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid traces Uslé's work from a Spanish shipwreck to its rebirth in New York City.
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How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb
A group of intergenerational artists, collectively known as Slow War Against the Nuclear State, investigates the afterlife of nuclear politics in a haunting, timely exhibition
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Frida-Mania Hits MoMA
A collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera’s costume designer, this exhibition is an irresistible marketing opportunity at best.
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Beacons in a Grim World
In concurrent exhibitions by Kevin McNamee-Tweed and Tajh Rust, we find two artists who keep looking and discovering, despite dark circumstances.
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Tracey Emin’s Cult of the Self
The YBA artist spearheaded contemporary art's trend of coupling extreme self-introspection with relentless self-promotion.
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Anki King’s Nordic Noir
A pervasive sense of self-containment, isolation, and miscommunication flows through the Norwegian artist’s work.
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The Angel of History Is Stuck in Jerusalem
The iconic Paul Klee work is missing from an exhibition about fascism at the Jewish Museum in New York due to "current conditions" in Israel.
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The Whitney Biennial Is for the Faint-Hearted
I got the sense that this biennial is hiding from the world today instead of reflecting on it.
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Zarina Brought the World to New York
Her visual idiom was fully embedded in South Asian histories, but she never fell into a too-close relationship with national identity.