The Asian Art Museum’s jaw-dropping new exhibition weaves together the contradictions of the human condition.

The Asian Art Museum’s jaw-dropping new exhibition weaves together the contradictions of the human condition.

To artist Chiharu Shiota, yarn is a connective tissue. She uses it to string together opposing forces-past and present, the internal and external-in webs that appear delicate and fluid but are, in fact, steely and immobile. Like arteries, the work in the new Asian Art Museum exhibition Chiharu Shiot…