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Best of Artlog Talk Back
Tiffany Jow

Talk Back, our newly revamped Tumblr account, asks you to send along anything you think is Artlog-worthy. Here’s a snapshot of recent sightings submitted by Artlog staffers.

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Rineke Dijkstra, The Krazyhouse (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee), Liverpool, UK, 2009. Four-channel HD video projection, with sound, 32 min., looped Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris.

Rineke Dijkstra’s stark portrait photography, on view at the Guggenheim, is most fascinating when it captures rare moments of adolescent subjects abandoning self-consciousness in front of her camera. Look for The Krazyhouse, a truly joyful four-channel video installation in which five teens dance alone (and for the most part, uninhibited) to a favorite song. —Georgina Wells

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Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nothing to Lose VII, 1989. Courtesy of the artist.

The Walther Collection’s Nothing to Lose showcases the provocative and important photographs of the late Nigerian-born, London-based artist Rotimi Fani-Kayode, whose works from the late 1980s successfully engaged with then-taboo subjects like race, religion, heritage, and sexuality. —Lindsey Grothkopp

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Jayson Musson, On Some Faraway Beach, 2012. Courtesy of Salon 94 Bowery.

A fellow gallery-goer asked, “Is this the Jayson Musson?” It’s nice to see the artist getting some recognition separate from his Hennessy Youngman persona. For his new show at Salon 94 Bowery, the artist wove together dozens of Coogi sweaters to create dizzying abstract compositions. —Amanda Ryan

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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You Invest in the Divinity of the Masterpiece), 1982. Acquired through an Anonymous Fund. © 2011 Barbara Kruger.

MoMA’s Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now introduces a challenging, questioning dialogue which distances itself from traditional aesthetics and instead emphasizes a need to represent novel ideas. —Cameron Meade

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Yayoi Kusama, All about my Love, and I Long to Eat a Dream of the Night, 2009. © Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy of Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc.; Ota Fine Arts; Victoria Miro Gallery and Gagosian Gallery.

In the midst of Kusama fever, the wait to see her Fireflies on the Water at the Whitney was understandably long, which is a shame, as the retrospective consists mainly of paintings and lacks a full-blown environment in its upstairs floors. —Tiffany Jow

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Installation view of Sciaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations at the Met, 2012.

The Schiaparelli and Prada thing at the Met was not particularly interesting to me. —Zach Bell