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(Lance Gerber) As an artistic form, the machine-geometry of a classic Minimalist cube has long signaled the heavy industrialization of the modern world — which ravaged Africa, contributing to the water crises that today plague Ghana. Securing the resource for survival requires relentless daily labor. That’s what all those yellow water containers are for. Bringing the local desert into the endurance narrative, Attukwei Clottey spread a puddle-shaped sheet on the ground that links the two cubes. Set in another lovely garden, Amer’s “Women’s Qualities” is partly tongue-in-cheek, supp...

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Katie Ryan's Ghost Palm (2019) in the second edition of the Desert X biennial Lance Gerber As California hits a bleak coronavirus milestone this month, with nearly 10% of the population infected, organisers of Desert X in the Coachella Valley have announced that the forthcoming edition of the outdoor sculpture exhibition will be postponed until lockdown restrictions have been lifted in the state. The third edition of the exhibition, which has become known as an arbiter of the “festival art” movement in the California and Nevada desert, was scheduled to open on 6 Febr...

Courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Photo: Gabe Hopkins. Time was a little, um, weird in 2020. January feels like eons ago. And more than in almost any other year, it feels like stories that were major topics of conversation one day just—poof!—evaporated the next. To offer you a trip down memory lane, we searched back in our archives (sometimes not that far back!) to resurface stories from this year that felt like they must have happened long before 2020—or, maybe, you forgot they even happened at all. ART MARKET From left to right: Arne Glimcher, Bill ...