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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston November 15, 2024– March 23, 2025
MASS MoCA May 24, 2025–April 5, 2026
The subtitle of Vincent Valdez’s mid-career retrospective at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Just a Dream . . . , summons a disenchanting fall to reality. It is a phrase one may invoke to create emotional distance from potential disappointment—“It’s just a dream”—or to downplay such disappointment after the fact—“It was just a dream.” But devoid of a preceding subject and verb, the phrase remains referentially and temporally enigmatic. Like Valdez’s art, it looks simultaneously to the past, present, and future. Moreover, the would-be trivializing finality of the fragmentary statement is deferred by an ellipsis. These three dots deny the comfort…
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May 28, 2025
ASU Art Museum September 7, 2024–January 12, 2025
The shifting soil, the receding water, and the chirping birds—echoes of a landscape etched by the relentless passage of time—guide us through the small gallery where fragility becomes perceptible, taking up a sensory presence. This first work in the exhibition, Points of Confluence: In Between the Island and the Desert, is a sound collaboration between the artists in the two-person exhibition Muddy Terrains: Mariana Ramos Ortiz + Estephania González, featuring San Juan-based Mariana Ramos Ortiz and Phoenix-based Estephania González. In this show at the Arizona State University Art Museum, the transient and delicate nature of our environment is…
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May 21, 2025
Catharina Manchanda and Cecilia Wichmann, eds.
Exh. cat.
New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 2024.
288 pp.;
250 color ills.;
30 b/w ills.
Hardcover
$60.00
(9780300276206)
Seattle Art Museum October 17, 2024–January 20, 2025
Up close, glass bead, wire, and thread intermesh through squiggles and circles; at times, their translucency invites nearby light and shadows, and moments of the bare wall underneath to peek through. Step back, however, and you’ll notice figures. Towards the tapestry’s top are two seated figures, one in yellow, another in maroon. Towards the middle is a larger yellow figure, with facial features outlined in black thread next to another smaller mostly forest-green colored figure, encircled in gold. Seen at various vantages, Untitled Fairy Tale (from the Graphic Novel Series), 2019–20 invites the viewer to ask: who are these figures…
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April 23, 2025
Denver Art Museum
March 10–October 20, 2024
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) defines landscapes as areas critical to economic development, as they supply natural resources and other goods and services essential to human needs. Similarly, traditional geographical studies have regarded landscapes as physical and objective entities, perceiving them as an external world that can be empirically accessed and analyzed. From the perspective of extractive industries, landscapes are transformed into territories—defined areas to be utilized and exploited. Fazal Sheikh’s exhibition, Fazal Sheikh: Thirst | Exposure | In Place, emphasizes viewing and understanding landscapes through a different lens. Sheikh’s work invites us to consider landscapes…
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April 7, 2025
ICA Boston
October 10, 2024–March 16, 2025
One of the challenges with performance art is the exhibition and presentation of it. How do you capture the “liveness” of the live event in a stationary museum setting? Jeffrey De Bois, with Max Gruber, curators of Charles Atlas: About Time at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, managed to do just that. Viewers are confronted with movement and the concept of time from the start of the exhibition to the very end. Meandering through a succession of rooms, viewers encounter a series of screens and labyrinths, and only pause near the end for a respite…
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February 10, 2025
Seattle Asian Art Museum
August 28, 2024–March 9, 2025
Meot: Korean Art from the Frank Bayley Collection at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, curated by Hyonjeong “HJ” Kim Han, celebrates Frank Bayley’s sustained admiration for Korean ceramics by framing his collection through the concept of meot—an aesthetic of balanced elegance that embraces imperfection. Presenting over sixty works spanning the Goryeo (918–1392) and Joseon (1392–1897) dynasties as well as contemporary reinterpretations, the exhibition reflects Bayley’s vision to capture Korean art’s evolution. While the exhibition gestures toward the layered complexities within Korean art, a more robust historical framework might better illuminate how shifting cultural values and aesthetic sensibilities influenced Korean…
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January 30, 2025
Sarah Loyer, ed.
Exh. cat.
DelMonico Books, 2023.
256 pp.;
150 color ills.;
25 b/w ills.
Hardcover
$60.00
(9781636810935)
The Broad May 27–October 8, 2023,
Art Gallery of Ontario November 11, 2023–March 17, 2024,
Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis April 27–September 8, 2024
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art
May 4, 2024–January 7, 2025
Keith Haring’s journals (Penguin Books, 2010) open with the nineteen-year-old burgeoning artist hitchhiking across the Midwest. Before he moved to New York and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts, the kid from Kutztown, Pennsylvania followed the Grateful Dead, selling t-shirts, getting high, and seeing the country. In Minnesota he found a tree by the St. Croix River that he was “gonna come back to, someday” (2). After the Dead show in Minneapolis, he and his companion hitched a ride and ate in a bar on the North Dakota border surrounded by farmers who commented on Haring’s hair when he…
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November 27, 2024
Seattle Art Museum February 29–May 12, 2024.
If any single person is responsible for the momentum that contemporary Native American art is having at this moment it is Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940–2025, enrolled Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes). This is, at least, one of the central takeaways of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map, which traces five decades of Smith’s career as both one of the leading artists and influential curators of Contemporary Native American art. The retrospective is an exciting, nearly dizzying, display of Smith’s artistic oeuvre that provides a textural depth to the artist’s career for those familiar with her work while still being a…
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September 26, 2024
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU,
March 26–June 29, 2024
Greeting the visitor to Beyond Hope: Kienholz and the Inland Northwest in a gallery of Washington State University’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is a wall-mounted assemblage featuring a black-and-white photograph of elderly figures in their Sunday best moving into a starkly empty field surrounded by high hills. The sepia-toned stain of liquid resin applied across the image enhances the sense of time past and the idea that it represents a fragile memory of a momentous change in the lives of the people depicted. Titled The Returning (1976), the landscape recalls the open rolling hills of the Palouse region of…
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September 16, 2024
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 302
Currently—January 25, 2026
Beneath the grand staircase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, a dark and intimate gallery sits tucked away. It would be easy to walk quickly through this space as viewers weave their way through the encyclopedic institution, but it would also be a mistake. Through 2026, a thoughtful and moving transhistorical exhibition is enlivening this interstitial space by centering the subject of death. Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt brings together a selection of thirty collection objects addressing loss, mourning, memory, and the afterlife by contemporary artists alongside jewelry, textiles, vessels, and architectural fragments from…
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July 29, 2024
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