Today, a glimpse into Jeffrey Gibson’s historic and exuberantly colored US pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the first by a Native American artist. We also report on Benin’s first-ever national pavilion and a sinister outdoors poster campaign by Ukraine’s representatives.
Meanwhile, workers at the Guggenheim Museum rally for a new union contract, and MFA students at New York University present their best work. Nearby, we pay a visit to an artist who decided to sit in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park for 10 days to watch a single black bean grow in her hands.
Also today: Five shows in Chicago that will put a smile on your face, and what does the 19th-century French obsession with lions tell us about the country’s colonial ambitions?
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— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
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The historic exhibition brings resounding echoes of resistance amid an enduring struggle for Indigenous autonomy across the American continents.
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Work by 31 emerging visual and sound artists on view April 20–May 19 in NYC.
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Everything Precious Is Fragile is an opportunity to collapse the conventions that define the nation in the global popular imagination.
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Presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Taiwan Collateral Event takes place in a dark, home-like setting at the Palazzo delle Prigioni.
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The maps show the location of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Biennale and the sites of real bunkers or air-raid shelters in the city from a time not so long ago.
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Avedis Hadjian |
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In addition to being some combination of formally delectable, politically astute, and historically poignant, five solo shows currently in Chicago are hilarious.
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Lori Waxman |
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Myth and Menagerie urges us to view lions as sentient beings and not as timeless, passive objects of representation for 19th-century French artists.
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Nageen Shaikh |
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While Asian-American Art may be "plagued by generational amnesia," as Sharon Mizota wrote for Hyperallergic, the artists and curators of Scratching at the Moon are definitely not.
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Anna Sew Hoy |
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You can see these young makers exploring techniques, probing theory, trying things out — a refreshing feeling in a city of slick art in white cubes.
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Lisa Yin Zhang |
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In a 10-day meditation, Jemila MacEwan silently nurtures a seed in the palm of their hand amidst the hustle and bustle of the iconic public park.
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