New York: Kenneth Tam Creates a New Frame for Asian American Masculinity

"[Kenneth] Tam always comes back to the body." Contributor Aaron Hunt surveys Silent Spikes, the art

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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.More, more, more below.— Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

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Maya Lin Erects a Ghostly Grove of Dead Trees in Manhattan Lin’s “Ghost Forest” at Madison Square Park will feature 50 towering white cedars devastated by climate change. Valentina Di Liscia

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Strike MoMA protests continue into their second week, with Brooklyn-based poet Jive Poetic withdrawing from an official museum function to perform at an activation last Friday, and last week’s leaked email from MoMA director Glenn Lowry suggests he is attempting to control the narrative within the institution. The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse is offering free admission to anyone with proof of vaccination through May 31. New Yorkers can get their COVID-19 jabs right under the blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History starting this Friday. This summer, award-winning stage designer Mimi Lien will transform the plaza at Lincoln Center into a giant green lawn.

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Kenneth Tam Creates a New Frame for Asian American Masculinity Tam’s work always comes back to the body, emphasizing what lays beyond our daily performances. Aaron Hunt

Laying Down Roots: Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves's Radical, Botanical Future Greaves emphasizes the possibilities of planting seeds in the ruins of violent structures. Billy Anania

A Painter of Organized Chaos Brazilian artist Caetano de Almeida lets colors call to colors, and shapes to shapes, as he works his way across the painting. John Yau

Off the Record Confronts Our Understanding of Objectivity A forceful rejection of neutrality, the Guggenheim exhibition unearths the deeply biased natures of media and government systems. Alexandra M. Thomas

Zi Yi Wang’s Full-Body Critiques of Consumerism A thing like you and me conjures the experience of being trapped in the darkness of manufactured happiness. Sophia Ma

Living and Working in the Korean Diaspora Ahrong Kim is a masterful ceramic sculptor whose touchstone is a young Asian woman’s head. John Yau

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Ilse D’Hollander, “Untitled” (1990/1991), mixed media on cardboard (© The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander, courtesy Sean Kelly, New York)

Ilse D'Hollander: Tension Field through April 24 at Sean Kelly Gallery Lucía Vidales: Sudor Frío through April 24 at PROXYCO Gallery Sarah Friedland’s Assembled Choreographies through April 26 online at Hartnett Gallery at the University of Rochester Matt Bollinger: Furlough through April 29 at Zürcher Gallery Tiffany Sia: Slippery When Wet through May 1 online and at Artists Space

On View in NY Museums

David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968–1979 through May 23 at the Drawing Center Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America through June 6 at the New Museum Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud through June 18 at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell through June 27 at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And through July 18 at the Brooklyn Museum Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life through September 6 at MoMA PS1 Kusama: Cosmic Nature through October 31 at the New York Botanical Gardens

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