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Paul Chan’s “Spekulieren (to speculate),” from 2020, which gives a panoramic sweep to this year of pandemic and protest.Credit...Paul Chan and Greene Naftali
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Leilah Babirye’s luminous sculptural figures, Luigi Ghirri’s vintage photographs, and
Paul Chan’s Wittgenstein drawings. This fall, the artist Paul Chan, whose varied art career has included animation and inflatable tube-man sculptures, published the first-ever English-language edition of what Wittgenstein called the “Dictionary for Elementary Schools” through his own Badlands Unlimited Press. Working in black ink at a large scale, and with his left hand (he’s a righty), Mr. Chan achieves a thrilling kind of naïveté. The drawings feel at once guileless and fully formed, like thoughts plucked fresh from the artist’s head. [
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