PJ Harper Turned His Early Fascination with Dolls into Sculptures That Celebrate Blackness
The mixed-race Scottish artist conjures Black women cast as flawless glamazons.
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Mohammed Sami, a Former Propaganda Painter, Creates Haunting Interiors That Hover Between Abstraction and Figuration
Mohammed Sami has become known for his quietly haunting paintings of domestic interiors and roiling landscapes.
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Catherine Telford Keogh on Sculpting Trash and Compressed Landfill into Striking Assemblages
"Sandblasting is almost like a mechanized geologic process, but it also creates this ghostly or fossilized image of the waste."
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Raul de Lara’s Rustic “Soft Sculptures” Act as Portraits of Invisible Laborers
Raul de Lara's so-called "tired tools" anthropomorphically evoke exhausted workers.
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Wang Xu’s Carved Animal Sculptures Have a Welcoming Aura of Cuteness Mixed with Kindness
The animals in Wang Xu’s compact, pastel-colored soapstone sculptures engage in a behavior rarely seen in contemporary art: kindness. In one, tiny birds line up and wait their turn to…
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From the Archives: Experimental Filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek on the Computer’s Emergence as a Creative Tool
When Art in America asked Stan VanDerBeek to nominate a new talent for the January-February issue of the magazine, he interpreted the prompt loosely and wrote an essay on “The Computer.” …
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Disabled Choreographer Christopher Unpezverde Núñez Is Skeptical of “Healing”
When two sweaty, exhausted dancers in a work by Christopher Unpezverde Núñez conclude their performance by picking up a bowl of fake blood and using it to paint on the ground, they…
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In an Art World Saturated with Video, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s Cinematic Storytelling Stands Apart
It’s not easy to steal the show with a 20-minute video competing for attention in a biennial boasting hours and hours of such work, but Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi managed to do just that at…
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Tsai Yun-Ju’s Flamboyant Abstractions Draw on Lyrical Chinese Epics
During a recent visit to New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Tsai Yun-Ju found herself mesmerized by a work by Henry Darger. Crowded with the outsider artist’s folksy Vivian Girls, the…
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