A retired FBI agent's four-decade paper trail becomes the spine of a sprawling Guggenheim show that treats conspiracy-adjacent facts as art. The exhibit stitches together TWA Flight 800, 9/11, the Nairobi embassy bombing and Marion Barry's arrest, but the artist admits she never got the full story.
— via Hyperallergic, Aruna D’Souza
Dozens of hand brooms, bound with ribbon and branches from a fallen tree, fill the first room of Daniel Minter's new show at the Haggerty Museum. The Caldecott-winning artist, raised under Jim Crow in Georgia, treats everyday tools as talismans, pairing his carved sculptures with the museum's own collection through December 19.
— via Colossal, Grace Ebert
Sankofa hearts keep turning up in Southern ironwork, from Savannah gates to a New York window that stopped a writer mid-sentence. Tracing the symbol through blacksmiths and archives reveals something messier than a straight line from West Africa: cultural memory that survives by changing shape.
— via Hyperallergic, Trelani Michelle