“Art of the Osage”

St. Louis St. Louis Art Museum Peyote Kit, Mid-20th century, Wood, brass locks and handle, cloth lining, and assorted objects inside, 8 7/8 x 21 1/8 x 7 3/4 in. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Unlike some American Indian exhibitions, “Art of the Osage” offers 100 objects whose aesthetic is spare and cohesive.

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Liz Craft

New York Marianne Boesky Gallery For sheer weirdness, not much could beat Liz Craft’s show of figurative sculptures, made mostly of cast bronze. Craft is a brilliant artisan of the bizarre, someone whose idiosyncrasies seem tied to issues of California funk and the morbid consequences of bad dreams.

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“Imitation Knotty Pine”

Memphis, TN Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts Artists and art historians are equally engaged in interpreting the past, though what appears in history books and on museum walls is not always what motivates studio work. Indeed, one might suggest that artists construct the past they need—or desire—based on the images they tack to corkboards or

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Sung Ho Kim

Belleville, Illinois William & Florence Schmidt Art Center, Southwestern Illinois College Architect Sung Ho Kim recently exhibited 10 models that explore alternative design strategies relevant to sculpture. His unique forms based on non-linear thinking, intuition, and abstraction respond to cultural, spatial, technological, and human needs.

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