The wish that the change in national leadership will free us from the consequences of the former pres
| The wish that the change in national leadership will free us from the consequences of the former president’s energetic racism was again proved naive this week by the mass murder in Atlanta, the most deadly among an ongoing series of attacks against Asian Americans in the past year. Politicians’ healing words are no match for the enduring power of his vile scapegoating.The problem must be accurately named — bigotry and violence have been licensed against fellow citizens — and combated by law enforcement. On Thursday, The New York Times reported 28 hate crimes against Asian Americans in 2020 in New York City, up from 3 in the previous year. There have already been several incidents in 2021; the only person to be prosecuted this year is Taiwanese. This week John Yau elucidates the role of Shintoism in the work of Japanese artist Izumi Kato, noting the “belief in the living nature of all things, from stones to toys, is one of the underlying forces running through Kato’s work.” Artists can and do remind us of such possibilities even amid this dispiriting reality, one in which the “living nature” of our neighbors is despised and assaulted.– Albert Mobilio, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend | |
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| | Surrounded by Spirits Izumi Kato’s exhibition at Perrotin dispatches us to long-forgotten realms of childhood, when the world was full of benign, sinister, weird, and mysterious beings. John Yau |
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| A Conceptual Compendium of Conceptual Art Flipping through Seth Siegelaub’s collection of writings and interviews is a bit like diving into an archive without a finding aid, as exhilarating as it is overwhelming. Megan N. Liberty |
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| Mira Dayal Maps a Gallery Floor The graphite floor map can be understood as a post-apocalyptic landscape, a commentary on artistic labor, or a parable about COVID-era confinement. Louis Bury |
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| Poetry as the “Art of Thinking It Through” The linguistic imagination of William Fuller’s new collection, Daybreak, takes the form of sustained odysseys between philosophical abstraction and the everyday concrete. Mark Scroggins |
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| | Required Reading This week, Hong Kong’s culture scene is facing major challenges, an NFT “house” sells big, Ishmael Reed on Alice Walker, Woody Allen’s manipulation, and more. Hrag Vartanian |
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