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…
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.” …
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…
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…
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…