“I’m a smorgasbord of neuroses,” the American artist Jim Shaw told the painter Peter Saul in 2015. Shaw, who became known as a leader of the 1960s “lowbrow art” movement, often speaks with this frank tone. “I’m so self-centered and have a terrible memory,” he has said. “There’s so many bigger things in the world [than art] … But I guess if we were refrigerator salesmen, we’d be self-absorbed with the ins and outs of refrigerator sales.” Inspired by popular and underground culture, by comics and miniatures, Shaw has recently focused on the tension between progressive and conservative principles. This exhibition presents works from the last 10 years plus a selection of earlier works. Returning to some of his favorite themes—wigs, male figures, household appliances—Shaw has also created a new large-scale piece made especially for the M HKA. —Jeanne Malle