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The reviews in today’s issue of Hyperallergic Weekend cover the eclectic range of topics you’ve come to expect: war poetry and paintings of toys; a critic reflecting on her personal alienation; the singular path chosen by a painter who died too young.

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So Much Achieved by One Artist in So Little Time

The Belgian artist Ilse D’Hollander rejected abstraction and figuration as an either/or premise in favor of a path that embraced both.

John Yau

Artworks as Portent and Balm

Two exhibitions by Patricia Satterlee have bookended the plague year.

Thomas Micchelli

Giuseppe Ungaretti's Wartime Poems

Out of the First World War’s unprecedented devastation came poetry equally unprecedented in its disinclination to celebrate heroism and the glory of

Carl Little

Painting the Family Dynamics of Toys and Food

Ulala Imai does more than project human feelings onto toys; she proposes that they represent us, and that we share some of their qualities.

Natalie Haddad

The One Book You Need to Read Right Now Is About Canadian Colonialism

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being by Amy Fung is a collection of linked personal essays about language, displacement, and ownership — about being both an “outsider” and an “intruder.”

John Yau

Required Reading

Today, NFT legal issues, looking closely at Bosch, taking to Beeple, Ken Burns on documentaries, superhero pay, and more.

Hrag Vartanian

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