{"id":292529,"date":"2026-02-20T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292529\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:24:06","slug":"in-a-stunning-smithsonian-exhibit-artist-nick-cave-uses-stuff-to-excavate-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292529\/","title":{"rendered":"In a stunning Smithsonian exhibit, artist Nick Cave uses stuff to excavate life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CTT6TZCV2VCL3AEU66MCASHOF4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The artist Nick Cave is a collector. Or, rather, a collection. Like the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6O6LL5BG4BD7XB3RYUATHJIEB4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">That, in a nutshell, is the message of \u201cMammoth,\u201d an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that is anything but tidy and whose centerpiece, true to the show\u2019s title, is a 700-square-foot light table covered in a couple of junk shop\u2019s worth of knickknacks and gewgaws. Taken as a whole, this show \u2014 which also features sculpture, video, photography and installation and a wearable woolly mammoth \u2014 is a kind of self-portrait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artist Nick Cave is a collector. Or, rather, a collection. Like the rest of us. That, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-292529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}