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“[Kenneth] Tam always comes back to the body.” Contributor Aaron Hunt surveys Silent Spikes, the artist’s current show at the Queens Museum, which presents a vision of Asian American masculinity that feels blissfully “free of performativity, ulterior motives, or deflections.”
In Manhattan, the famed artist and architect Maya Lin will soon erect a deadly accurate installation about the growing climate emergency, and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves’s imagines a radical, botanical future at Artists Space.
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— Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews
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