ArtReview April 2023
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Candice Lin evinces racist conflations between biology and Asian bodies, tracing history’s tendency to recur and fold in on itself; Trajal Harrell borrows, mixes and adapts different avant-garde styles to reclaim dance as a heritage for all; Following the irony of a sculpture by Frans Krajcberg being destroyed in mob mania, his work articulates industrial devastation in eloquent sculpture; The works of Maya Lin, initially known for winning the Vietnam War Memorial competition as an undergraduate, have matured into one; Sarah Jilani investigates the colonial myth of universality at the heart of the art-repatriation debate; and in The Interview, Isabel Nolan talks about her multi-media practice through absurdism, melancholy and compensatory beauty and tenderness. Then, columns about a new line of puppy-proof Jean-Michel Basquiat rugs; Musée Picasso’s attempts to appeal to a more youthful audience; and what it means to be a woman in India today. Plus exhibition, book reviews and more...