The Art of Activism: A Conversation with Barbara Hashimoto

Barbara Hashimoto’s recent work resides at the intersection of sculpture, consumer culture, and environmental concerns. She collects and shreds junk mail to build large-scale naturalistic forms that ironically resemble the earth itself. Transitory and site-specific, these pieces expose the excessive use, and even abuse, of natural resources that enables the seemingly limitless supply of printed

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Nicholas Hlobo: Where is Your Navel?

According to South African critic Amy Halliday, contemporary art from the African continent is “often either excluded from, or uncomfortably assimilated into, an overarching Western narrative.” Nicholas Hlobo, a young South African sculptor, mined this narrative for his 2008 installation at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, where his work was featured as part of the

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