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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art

Sept 6, 2019 – Jan 5, 2020
32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

“Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has said, “just different elements of belonging and not belonging.” Forty new works from contemporary artists around the world—ranging from sculptures and photographs to prints and a slide projection by Candida Höfer—take up themes of place and home, borders and boundaries. —J.V.