Weekend: Deborah Remington, Bisa Butler, Jasper de Biejer, Richard Mosse, Izumi Suzuki

Recent statements by politicians brought to mind the last stanza from Michael Palmer’s poem ‘Third El

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Recent statements by politicians brought to mind the last stanza from Michael Palmer’s poem ‘Third Elegy,” which is in the recently published Little Elegies for Sister Satan (2021):mouthful of sandwhile deaf to those measureswhich draw us together— John Yau, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend

Deborah Remington’s Singular Place in Art By employing a slow, deliberate process in which control is paramount, Remington shaped her passage in time. John Yau

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Bisa Butler’s Worlds in Cut Cloth Birds and airplanes soar, horses gallop, purples meet yellows, cerulean blues tango with magenta in geometric patterns, foliate designs crash into damask. Debra Brehmer

Photographs That Bring the Past Into the Present By constructing a highly detailed world based on historical events, Jasper de Biejer gives himself permission to ponder the past. John Yau

SPONSORED The Contemporary Dayton's Inaugural Exhibitions at the Historic Dayton Arcade The Inaugural Exhibitions at the Dayton Arcade will feature premieres by Dayton natives, Zachary Armstrong and the late Curtis Barnes, Sr., and LA filmmaker, Cauleen Smith on view April 30–July 17, 2021. Visit thecontemporarydayton.org for more information.Zachary Armstrong, Untitled Large Grid, 2020, 98 x 143 in., encaustic and oil in artist frame. Image: John Sousa

Richard Mosse's Photos Exoticize Disaster Employing drones, Mosse creates psychedelic aerial maps of ecological degradation. Louis Bury

A Female Vision of Sci-Fi Izumi Suzuki introduced a different vision of femininity, one that departed from the stereotypes so abundant in the work of male writers. Ren Scateni

Artworks Orbiting the Thinking of Hannah Arendt Eight shows over the course of a year loosely explore the eight chapters of Arendt’s 1968 book, Between Past and Future.“ Michael Glover

Required Reading This week, the anthropological use and abuse of human remains, rest and liberation, the cult of Trump, the cicada invasion, the first frozen margarita machine, and more. Hrag Vartanian

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