Set Piece: Sandra Mujinga at The Approach
Sandra Mujinga's green room stages the paradoxical hypervisibility and invisibility of Blackness and the tension between stasis and change.
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What’s In a Face?
Kevin Francis Gray's "Breakdown Works," on view at Pace in London, push the portrait bust form toward abstraction.
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Charting a Changing World One Loss at a Time
Cao Fei's art is about transformation and destruction in physical and virtual worlds, highlighting the increasingly blurred distinctions between them.
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Algorithms Can’t Automate Beauty
Trevor Paglen filters photos of blooming trees through bespoke computational processes.
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Two Steve McQueen Exhibitions in London Show His Commitment to the Ostracized, the Ignored, and the Colonized
In the past two decades, artist-filmmaker Steve McQueen has achieved Hollywood success with movies that draw on the spirit of video art—a rare feat.
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With Her Monumental Fountain in London, Kara Walker Offers a Gift We Shouldn’t Accept
The work addresses the history of slavery in England—and makes grave errors in the process.
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Vivian Suter’s Painting-Based Installations Register the Volatility of Nature
In the four decades since she moved to a remote village in Guatemala, Vivian Suter has exhibited only sporadically, though her vibrant abstract paintings have attracted increased attention in the…
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Is Valie Export’s 1980 Venice Biennale Installation Still Radical Today?
Austrian artist Valie Export is best known for provocative public performances that she described as a form of "expanded cinema," in which she used her body to challenge the coding of female social…
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Painter Michael Simpson Renders the Cruelties of Religion Using the Strictures of Minimalism
In his work, Michael Simpson, an avowed atheist, often alludes to the cruel hierarchies and injustices imposed by organized religion, framing religious institutions as sites of exclusion and…
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Deborah Roberts Renders the Complexity of Black Childhood in Collage
Roberts's work focuses almost exclusively on depictions of black youth: bold, graphic figures composed of gouache bodies pasted with faces and hands cut from photographs found in magazines or online…
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