It took the American artist Liza Lou five years, from 1991 to 1996, and thirty million beads to complete
her life-size sculpture “Kitchen” (a detail is pictured)—both a labor of love and a feminist critique of
undervalued domestic labor. It’s on view, starting Nov. 22, in “Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019,”
an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of more than eighty pieces by some sixty artists, from Robert Rau-
schenberg to Simone Leigh, who have experimented with unorthodox materials and hands-on approaches.
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