Best Social-Practice Art-History Exhibition

The Dust Bowl-era photographs of Dorothea Lange are so famous that lots of Americans who don’t know her name or understand her artistic practice can still recognize her world-famous pictures at a glance. The Frist’s Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing was a moving display of the photographer’s timeless images. But it was the show’s overall picturing of Lange as a social-practice art pioneer that made it one of the year’s most illuminating surprises. JOE NOLAN

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