Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Unfinished Works Propose Radical Alternatives to Traditional Monuments
As protesters around the world topple contested statues, the late artists' legacy offers a vision for public art grounded in democratic processes.
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A cast bronze sculpture of a commanding figure enthroned like an Egyptian pharaoh greeted visitors to Huma Bhabha's midcareer survey, "They Live."
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“Under a Dismal Boston Skyline”
Nina Simone singing "Wild Is the Wind," punctuated by the clicking of slide projectors, provided a moody, retro soundtrack for "Under a Dismal Boston Skyline," an ambitious exhibition of experimental…
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"Nostalgia" was a long-considered take on nature in the twenty-first century, offering historical wisdom and imagination at a moment when such conditions seem in short supply.
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Tropical Fantasies, Dark Histories
Ward's repurposed objects report on loss, while his meticulous repetitive processes, applied to materials that seem valueless, offer a kind of recuperation. Broiler pans panel the wall in Iron…
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Fred Eversley
When I visited this exhibition of thirteen works by Fred Eversley, the black, white, and gray polyester resin and acrylic sculptures that serve as the show’s focus reflected the New England winter sun…
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Edgar Arceneaux
Arceneaux’s immersive, theatrical works reveal complex, lost storylines of the post–civil rights era United States and cast us as witnesses to the lies, redactions, iconizing, and forgetting that has…
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Robert Irwin
In 1970, Robert Irwin gave up his studio and sold his art supplies. The midcareer painter and sculptor “simply stopped being an artist in those senses,” as he told Lawrence Weschler for the classic bi…
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Lorraine O’Grady
At the time, it seemed unremarkable to walk onto the Harvard campus to view "Lorraine O'Grady: Where Margins Become Centers," tucked inside the Carpenter Center, America's sole Le Corbusier-designed b…
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Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957
The deeply researched exhibition “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, co-organized by Helen Molesworth and Ruth Erickson, gives a measure…
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