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LABOR ART OF THE WEEK: Striking Objects

Lawrence Smoot | Published on 2/9/2025

The Striking Objects exhibit at the National Museum of Asian Art is about a different kind of strike, the technique of hammering employed on contemporary Japanese metalwork, which requires immense labor and heat. It’s a small show, worth a look, on view now in Gallery 22 of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.