Art Review
The Unexpected Beauty of Detritus
Through his art, Yuji Agematsu brings reverence and discipline to this job of living, and acknowledges each human’s durational condition.
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Dakota Mace’s Quiet Enactment of Diné Philosophy
The artist’s show at SITE Santa Fe shows how Indigenous thought and contemporary exhibition-making can co-exist without compromise.
Art Review
New York University MFA Students Rethink the Body
This year’s class comes up with novel ways to think about the bodies we inhabit, the stresses they carry, and their limits of perception.
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Fifteen Shows in One at Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies
This beast of an exhibition includes kinky live performances, site-specific installations, and a prevailing feeling of joyousness.
Book Review
Unraveling the Imperial Impulses of Chinese Textiles
Like an art history detective, Mei Mei Rado mines textiles and techniques to reveal cross-cultural Chinese-European liaisons driven by nationalism and a keen interest in design.
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One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Art
An exhibition argues that human production — its surplus and waste — is a rising influential force in contemporary art.
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Global Tourism Was Built on Headless Blemmyes
The Book of Marvels is the kind of show that’s hard to avoid at archival art institutions, wherein problematic historical content, aesthetic appeal, and fantasy all intersect.
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An Exhibition That Looks to the Bronx for Inspiration
“Working Knowledge” is deeply attuned to the Bronx community it emerges from — an attentiveness that greatly enhances its significance.
Book Review
A Mystical, Obsessive Encounter With the Ginseng Root
Craig Thompson’s rhizomatic new graphic novel about the root’s farming industry exposes the paradoxes of Trump’s America.
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Will the Real Cimabue Please Stand Up?
The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits.
Book Review
Internet Misinformation Is the New Medieval Magical Thinking
Readers might enjoy the gross and gory fairy-tale quality of this new book — or its parallels to the Trumpian internet.
Art Review
The UCLA MFA Show Proves We’ve Got to Learn From Students
Far from perfect, their work illustrates the kind of mess, ambition, and attention that many artists would be lucky to have.