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.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
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Firelei Báez Paints Away the World’s Borders
The artist reminds us that maps advance the fiction that we could treat the earth as an object to be measured, cut up, and extracted from without consequences.
Art
Ragnar Kjartansson’s Spiritual Satire
Much of Kjartansson’s work combines dry humor with a sobering examination of power and violence.
Art
The Cold Gaze and the Myth of Objectivity
A Copenhagen exhibition offers a rich view into the creative production and daily life in the Weimar Republic, with its glamour and its grotesquerie.
Art
Pipilotti Rist Brings Out the Weirdness of Being Human
“I was a wild girl,” Rist has said of herself as a child, and her radiantly colorful videos honor this rebellious spirit.
In Brief
A New-Wave 'Little Mermaid' Illustrated by Yayoi Kusama
If you most vividly remember The Little Mermaid as told by Disney, with the mermaid princess and her prince sailing off together beneath a rainbow, now is the time to revisit Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale, which is much, much darker.
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Olafur Eliasson Creates a Riverbed in a Museum
Today, Riverbed, Olafur Eliasson's first solo exhibition at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, fills the museum's South Wing with dirt and rocks of all sizes, complete with a narrow, meandering trench of water, to transform the space into a craggy landscape.