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An Artist’s Songs for the Armenian Diaspora
With the stringed qanun as its beating heart, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian’s show explores how music crosses boundaries and preserves collective memory.
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Ericka Beckman’s Surreal Visions of Late Capitalism
Though often associated with the Pictures Generation, Beckman’s work shifts focus from deconstruction to archetypes — and from the commodity to the human.
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How Do You Paint Language?
A group show curated by Hilton Als meditates on words in the visual arts, but wields silence in ways that verge on obstinate obscurity.
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Andrea Chung’s Afrofuturism of Cyanotypes and Sugar
The artist’s show at MOCA North Miami follows her interest in destructive transformation as a path to a more accurate history.
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Nick Cave’s Eternal Garden
In his new work, the artist emerges from his aesthetic camouflage into a more complicated space of visibility that probes relationships of power and image.
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Unlearning the Myths of Asian Art History
Culling ancient works from the Asia Society’s collection, Rina Banerjee, Howardena Pindell, and Byron Kim look to the past to challenge ideas of identity and authenticity.
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The Unlikely Muse of Soil
The earth itself is fertile artistic ground at Somerset House — but the exhibition stops short of getting visitors’ hands dirty, even in imagination.
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How Do We Know We’re Looking at the Same Painting?
More than an overarching narrative, Gregg Bordowitz is invested in what it means to observe art together and share an emotion with another person.
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From the Fire’s Remains, Kelly Akashi Sculpts Possibility
In the aftermath of tragedy, Akashi shows us the importance of the ability to imagine and create new structures, to see the potential futures in a seed.
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Diedrick Brackens Unravels and Re-Weaves Histories
In his first exhibition in the United Kingdom, the artist creates large-scale tapestries that draw upon the brutal racialized history of cotton.
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Pratchaya Phinthong’s Visions of Value
The artist’s sculptures and video works, which meditate on money, politics, and power, may help us understand our worldwide far-right upheaval.
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The Gallery That Captured the Spirit of the Black Arts Movement
Founded in 1969 by Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey, Acts of Art exemplified the spirit of a subversive and consequential period in Black art history.