Beverly Semmes’s Feminist Palimpsests

MEDFORD, Mass. — Fabric works bookend Beverly Semmes’s Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick at the Tufts University Art Galleries. Yet the exhibition’s 45-year span evidences a dramatic range of interests. Performance is one throughline, with objects inspired by...

A Contemporary Art Exhibition in an 18th-Century Home

What’s the opposite of a white cube exhibition? Touch Jamaica, Rejin Leys’s show of paper sculptures set among the period props of a historic home, feels pretty close. The Queens-based Haitian-American artist creates mixed-media work that meditates on displacement due...

The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction

LONDON — Some of the Courtauld’s previous exhibitions have suffered from insufficient curation. Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Alice Adams, Eva Hesse, on the other hand, strikes the exact right balance. Drawing on scholar Jo Applin’s research, curator...

Yuji Agematsu Arranges Street Debris into Tiny Daily Sculptures

Each day, Yuji Agematsu takes a walk for the explicit purpose of scouring the streets. The dried leaf, lost toy, and even the wad of gum discarded on a park bench are his treasures, which he retrieves and places in the clear cellophane that wraps a pack of cigarettes....