For The Better

This week, the only LGBTQ+ historic district in the US, three Asian-American Modernists, Ai Weiwei on reclaiming art from capitalism, Thanksgiving and genocide, and more.

For the artist, history doesn’t simply settle for repeating itself but jolts forward, stammers, pauses for breath, weaves around itself.

Fei Li knows that achieving rapprochement between the world views and customs of China and America is unlikely.

Sentimentality would creep into the artist’s late evocations of remembered childhood scenes, as would idealization.

The work in The Travel Section points to the isolation of a lockdown, but it’s not without moments of release.

Chemin Hsiao, winner of the museum’s Open Call for Artist Banners, and runners-up Woomin Kim and Mo Kong discuss their designs with Hyperallergic.