The Multigenerational Legacy of Black Arts in Buffalo https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Bree-Gilliam-There-Goes-the-Neighborhood-2022.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Tiffany D. Gaines examines the city’s often under-recognized artists, change-makers, and arts advocates. https://hyperallergic.com/878025/the-multigenerational-legacy-of-black-arts-in-buffalo/
Fiction and Fact Intermingle at the First Look Film Festival https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/GR_inside-car.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=100&ssl=1 The Museum of the Moving Image’s annual experimental cinema event features several films that remix archival materials. https://hyperallergic.com/877818/fiction-and-fact-intermingle-at-the-first-look-film-festival-museum-of-the-moving-image/
Patrick Moore to Resign as Warhol Museum Director https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-814029578.jpg?fit=1024%2C757&quality=100&ssl=1 Moore, who joined the museum in 2011, drew criticism for an exhibition in Saudi Arabia that was accused of “artwashing” the nation's human rights record. https://hyperallergic.com/878088/patrick-moore-to-resign-as-andy-warhol-museum-director/
ArtYard Offers an Immersive Look Inside Charlotte Schulz’s Surreal Landscapes https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/PathoftheHeart-CharlotteShultz.png?fit=1024%2C633&quality=100&ssl=1 Minutely scaled vignettes connect in a network of interlocking scenes in A Constellation of Small Events. On view through June 2 in Frenchtown, New Jersey. https://hyperallergic.com/877568/artyard-charlotte-schulz-surreal-landscapes/
Artists Respond to TikTok’s Nebulous Future in the US https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/tiktok2.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 A bill that could result in a ban of the platform has moved to the Senate, prompting concerns from content creators who depend on the app. https://hyperallergic.com/877638/artists-respond-to-tiktoks-nebulous-future-in-the-us/
Sanford Wurmfeld Investigates How We Perceive Color https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/ra2Lx.jpeg?fit=1024%2C671&quality=100&ssl=1 Paintings that appear ever-changing make us conscious of how we see. https://hyperallergic.com/877838/sanford-wurmfeld-investigates-how-we-perceive-color/
The Pristine and Sensuous World of John McCracken https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/JMDZLASHOW2024_INSTALL_V11-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 While most Minimalists sought to eliminate expressive potential, McCracken’s sculptures do quite the opposite. https://hyperallergic.com/877842/the-pristine-and-sensuous-world-of-john-mccracken/
Hot Flux Fosters Afro-Asian Solidarity https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/image5.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 An exhibition hints at synchronicities between the contemporary concerns of a small island nation and a vast and diverse continent. https://hyperallergic.com/877115/hot-flux-fosters-afro-asian-solidarity-tainan-art-museum/
Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Jessica-Jackson-Hutchins-Mourner-2013.jpg?fit=1024%2C654&quality=100&ssl=1 Unpretentious work by 17 Pacific Northwest artists blurs the line between functionality and aesthetics in this exhibition at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design. https://hyperallergic.com/877168/indie-folk-new-art-and-sounds-from-the-pacific-northwest-museum-of-craft-and-design/
First Impressions From the 2024 Whitney Biennial https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/DSC05340.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 The exhibition that often acts as a barometer of trends and ideas percolating in global art communities has both hits and misses. https://hyperallergic.com/877662/first-impressions-from-the-2024-whitney-biennial/
Questions Remain After ICA Miami Removes Portrait of Edward Said https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/gaines.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Charles Gaines’s artwork depicting the Palestinian-American scholar was quietly taken down and re-installed, rousing concerns. https://hyperallergic.com/876404/questions-remain-after-ica-miami-removes-portrait-of-edward-said/
When Shakespeare Lured Soldiers to Battle https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/‘That-what-you-cannot-as-you-would-achieve-you-must-perforce-accomplish-as-you-may-1880-Military-Misreadings-of-Shakespeare.jpeg?fit=1024%2C800&quality=100&ssl=1 Beloved by kings and generals, Shakespeare’s lines have always found their way into powerful hands — and employed to violent ends. https://hyperallergic.com/877651/when-shakespeare-lured-soldiers-to-battle/
How Giuseppe Arcimboldo Made the Familiar Bizarre https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Portratt_Rudolf_II_som_Vertumnus._Guiseppe_Arcimboldo_-_Skoklosters_slott_-_87582-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 The artist’s perplexing paintings should be viewed not as mere visual puzzles, but instantiations of an occult philosophy. https://hyperallergic.com/877559/how-giuseppe-arcimboldo-made-the-familiar-bizarre/
Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Pratt_022624_BFA_Photography_Thesis_Week4_TS-106.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school’s graduating students. MFA and BFA work on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York. https://hyperallergic.com/808320/mondays-at-pratt-institute-weekly-openings-mfa-bfa-artists/
The Dark Clouds Closing In on Mark Rothko https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/IMG_20231213_122400-copy.jpg?fit=1024%2C719&quality=100&ssl=1 A retrospective exhibition in Paris holds so much beauty that visitors may miss how the artist, exhausted, painted himself into a corner. https://hyperallergic.com/877124/the-dark-clouds-closing-in-on-mark-rothko-fondation-louis-vuitton/
Was John Singer Sargent an Insufferable Snob? https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/3.-John-Singer-Sargent-Madame-X.jpg?fit=1024%2C777&quality=100&ssl=1 Sargent’s sitters were all rich enough to employ him — the nouveau riches or (less often) the aristocratic, though it hardly matters. https://hyperallergic.com/877074/was-john-singer-sargent-an-insufferable-snob-tate-britain/
Ann Arbor Film Festival Returns With 110 Films From 31 Countries https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/62nd-Ann-Arbor-Film-Festival-2400x1350-1.png?fit=1024%2C576&quality=100&ssl=1 North America’s oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival presents screenings online and in-person from March 26 through April 7. https://hyperallergic.com/876691/ann-arbor-film-festival-returns-with-110-films-from-31-countries/
UrbanGlass Staff Leave Exhibition After Board Excludes Palestinian Artist’s Work https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3441.jpg?fit=1024%2C552&quality=100&ssl=1 The board said the neon artwork, which features the phrase “from the river to the sea,” could be interpreted as a “call for violence.” https://hyperallergic.com/876888/urbanglass-staff-leave-exhibition-after-board-excludes-palestinian-artists-work/
LA Protesters Block Traffic, Chanting “No Oscars During Genocide” https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/oscarsprotest9.jpg?fit=1024%2C722&quality=100&ssl=1 More than 1,000 organizers, artists, and film workers gathered to protest what they see as Hollywood's silence and complicity with the Israeli government. https://hyperallergic.com/876950/la-protesters-block-traffic-chanting-no-oscars-during-genocide/
The Synergetic Spirit of Buffalo’s Black Arts Community https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Five-of-the-Six.jpg?fit=1024%2C1021&quality=100&ssl=1 The continuum of Black artists in the city has fostered decades of spaces and practices centering accessibility and the link between art and life. https://hyperallergic.com/876439/the-synergetic-spirit-of-buffalo-black-arts-community/
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts CEO Resigns Over Pro-Palestine Action https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/YBCA-2.15.2024-brookeanderson-11.jpg?fit=1024%2C663&quality=100&ssl=1 Sara Fenske Bahat cited the “Love Letter for Gaza” intervention on February 15 “and its unending repercussions.” https://hyperallergic.com/876692/yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts-ceo-resigns-over-pro-palestine-action/
None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Sengai-Gibon-Kanzan-Jittoku.png?fit=1024%2C576&quality=100&ssl=1 Japan Society explores the origins of Zen Buddhism over four centuries of work from painter-monks, including celebrated Buddhist master Hakuin Ekaku. https://hyperallergic.com/876018/none-whatsoever-zen-paintings-from-the-gitter-yelen-collection-japan-society/
Pro-Palestine Activists Slash Painting of Former British Prime Minister https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/action.jpg?fit=1024%2C597&quality=100&ssl=1 The 1914 portrait depicts Arthur Balfour, author of the 1917 declaration that established Britain's aim to create a Jewish state in Palestine. https://hyperallergic.com/876693/pro-palestine-activists-slash-painting-of-former-british-prime-minister-arthur-balfour/
Activists Disrupt Israeli Artist Michal Rovner’s Opening at Pace Gallery https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/pace1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Demonstrators led a silent performance and dispersed fabric poppy petals inscribed with the names of Palestinians killed by Israel. https://hyperallergic.com/876669/activists-disrupt-israeli-artist-michal-rovner-opening-at-pace-gallery/
Required Reading https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/This-Is-Rigged-Scotland-Gaza-Protest.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 This week, aging and women’s self-portraiture, the fictional language of Dune, an Air Canada AI nightmare, Terracotta army dancers, and much more. https://hyperallergic.com/876406/required-reading-671/
MASS MoCA Workers Picket Museum on Second Day of Strike https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/massmoca_1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 The union is seeking a higher minimum wage and salary hikes across the board. https://hyperallergic.com/876435/mass-moca-workers-picket-museum-on-second-day-of-strike/
Shan Shui Reboot: Re-Envisioning Landscape for a Changing World https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Glows-in-the-Arctic-2022-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C299&quality=100&ssl=1 Contemporary artists reinterpret traditional Chinese landscape painting in the context of the climate crisis in this show at China Institute Gallery in NYC. https://hyperallergic.com/875867/shan-shui-reboot-re-envisioning-landscape-for-a-changing-world-china-institute-gallery/
Reimagine Peace, No Matter How Long the Path https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/001_AK_s_.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Machiko Harada examines how Japanese and Japanese-American artists address the painful legacy of US concentration camps during World War II. https://hyperallergic.com/876231/re-imagine-peace-no-matter-how-long-the-path/
Sarah Grilo’s Prescient Abstraction https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Sarah-Grilo-Thumbnail-Lelong.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 By laying numbers, words, and phrases onto otherwise abstract imagery, the late Argentinian artist prophesized the dread-inducing news alerts of our time. https://hyperallergic.com/875892/sarah-grilo-prescient-abstraction/
Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice Presents Amir Hariri: The Future Was Now https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/AmirH.MiracleoftheHost.png?fit=1024%2C442&quality=100&ssl=1 Amir Hariri delves into a post-futurist realm to explore contemporary crises, collective traumas, and historical injustices. On view in NYC. https://hyperallergic.com/875609/atamian-hovsepian-curatorial-practice-amir-hariri-the-future-was-now/
Lenders Withdraw Works From Barbican Show, Alleging “Censorship” https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/nothing.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 The London arts center decided not to host a talk that explored connections between the Holocaust and Israel’s attacks on Gaza. https://hyperallergic.com/875873/lenders-withdraw-works-from-barbican-show-alleging-censorship/
Envisioning Kashmir’s Future Through Paint and Verse https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Shepherd-and-His-Flock.jpg?fit=1024%2C760&quality=100&ssl=1 Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock responded to Kashmiri artist Masood Hussain’s watercolors of his homeland, crafting an intimate portrait of the occupied region’s past and future. https://hyperallergic.com/875314/envisioning-kashmir-future-through-paint-verse-masood-hussain-gabriel-rosenstock/
Rare Family-Inclusive Artist Residency Debuts in Colorado https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/20231130_AIR_Hill_Family-17-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 Unlike most such programs, Anderson Ranch Arts Center has piloted a new initiative that supports artist-parents. https://hyperallergic.com/874828/anderson-ranch-family-inclusive-artist-residency-debuts-in-colorado/
Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/KWS-HRS_HA-Post_1.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=100&ssl=1 With landscapes by contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick in conversation with Hudson River School paintings, this show is in its final weeks at New-York Historical Society. https://hyperallergic.com/875183/kay-walkingstick-hudson-river-school-new-york-historical-society/
The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: March 2024 https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/12/jancrossword.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Infamous affairs in art history, Harlem Renaissance icons, New York’s beloved escapee owl, and more art clues to puzzle over this month. https://hyperallergic.com/875667/the-hyperallergic-art-crossword-march-2024/
Nonprofit Led by Steve Jobs’s Widow Acquires SF Art Institute for $30M https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/3645429169_645276d804_k.jpg?fit=1024%2C743&quality=100&ssl=1 Laurene Powell Jobs’s organization purchased the campus and its iconic Diego Rivera mural. https://hyperallergic.com/875608/nonprofit-led-by-steve-jobs-widow-acquires-san-francisco-art-institute-for-30m/
8 Art Books to Read This March https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Potter-March-book-lede.jpg?fit=1024%2C812&quality=100&ssl=1 Meret Oppenheim’s poetry, Pao Houa Her’s first monograph, the journals of Charles Burchfield, subway art around New York City, and more. https://hyperallergic.com/874994/8-art-books-to-read-march-2024/
Protesters Call Out Art World’s Silence on Gaza at Frieze LA Fair https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/frieze-protest-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Organizers pointed to Frieze partner Deutsche Bank's financial ties to Israel and urged fairgoers to speak up. https://hyperallergic.com/875514/protesters-call-out-art-worlds-silence-on-gaza-at-frieze-la-fair/
8 Art Shows to See in New York This March https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/zwirner1200.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&quality=100&ssl=1 This month: Huma Bhabha, Paul Cadmus, Kay WalkingStick, Beatrix Potter, and more. https://hyperallergic.com/875409/8-art-shows-to-see-in-new-york-this-march/
Glass House Is a Dance of Drama and Domesticity https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/Volta2.jpg?fit=1024%2C784&quality=100&ssl=1 Performers carried one another the way we shoulder our friends, lovers, and family: sometimes dragging them, sometimes exalting them. https://hyperallergic.com/875330/glass-house-is-a-dance-of-drama-and-domesticity/
Wonkiest Memes of the “Willy Chocolate Experience” Fiasco https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/hopper-lead.jpg?fit=1024%2C730&quality=100&ssl=1 The harrowing AI-marketed Glasgow event made children cry and sent parents into a fury, but the internet is delighted. https://hyperallergic.com/875144/wonkiest-memes-of-the-willy-chocolate-experience-fiasco/
Past Deposits from a Future Yet to Come https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/PDFAFYTC_Ad_Hyperallergic.png?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 A new video installation by artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Bircher fills an amphitheater at Waterloo Park in Austin, Texas. https://hyperallergic.com/873992/past-deposits-from-a-future-yet-to-come-waterloo-greenway/
Getting Cozy at Felix, LA’s Art Fair Underdog https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Felix_011.jpg?fit=1024%2C774&quality=100&ssl=1 The dizzying hallways and poolside cabanas of Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel come alive with art that leans into the lowbrow. https://hyperallergic.com/875049/getting-cozy-at-felix-2024-los-angeles-art-fair-underdog/
Nathan Vincent Crochets Away Toxic Masculinity https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Vincent.jpg?fit=1024%2C819&quality=100&ssl=1 Drawing on his knitting and crochet skills, Vincent softens hard surfaces, such as steel lockers and locks, porcelain urinals, guns, grenades, and bombs. https://hyperallergic.com/874927/nathan-vincent-crochets-away-toxic-masculinity/
Palestinian Artist Fathi Ghaben Dies After Israel Blocks Travel for Treatment https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/fathi.jpg?fit=1024%2C727&quality=100&ssl=1 Fathi Ghaben, a self-taught painter, was 77 years old and suffered from respiratory issues. https://hyperallergic.com/874737/palestinian-artist-fathi-ghaben-dies-after-israel-blocks-travel-for-treatment/
Children “In Tears” at Disastrous Wonka Factory “Experience” https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/429477880_1896101747473459_7983344053117313128_n-1.jpeg?fit=1024%2C828&quality=100&ssl=1 AI images were used to sell tickets to a Chocolate Factory event that should have remained in pure imagination. https://hyperallergic.com/874652/children-in-tears-at-disastrous-willy-wonka-factory-experience/
Curator’s Termination Sparks Outrage at Minneapolis Institute of Art https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/1000005695-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Robert Cozzolino’s departure has become a flashpoint for former staff who allege a toxic workplace under Director Katherine Luber. https://hyperallergic.com/874418/curators-termination-sparks-outrage-at-minneapolis-institute-of-art/
Tyler School of Art and Architecture Opens 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibitions https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/MFA_Thesis_2024_Web_Banner_2400x1300.jpg?fit=1024%2C555&quality=100&ssl=1 Twenty-nine students explore empowerment through the lens of visual and material culture at Temple Contemporary in Philadelphia. https://hyperallergic.com/873620/tyler-school-of-art-and-architecture-2024-mfa-thesis-exhibitions/
How Artists Reimagine Our Relationship With Death https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/mk1.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Brianna L. Hernández examines how seven artists reclaim end-of-life traditions in their practice. https://hyperallergic.com/874287/how-artists-reimagine-our-relationship-with-death/
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This March https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Lucha-in-my-room-copy.jpg?fit=1024%2C761&quality=100&ssl=1 SWANA women artists, Dorothy Hood’s unsung surrealism, Jennifer West’s cosmological spider webs, queer Chicanx borderlands, and more. https://hyperallergic.com/873827/10-shows-to-see-in-los-angeles-march-2024/
Three Modernist Women Who Reclaimed the Nude https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/1200Autoportrait-au-peignoir-ouvert-1200x1538-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&quality=100&ssl=1 Painting Her Pleasure delves into the work of three women artists whose own engagement with the nude was prescient and groundbreaking https://hyperallergic.com/873582/three-modernist-women-who-reclaimed-the-nude-painting-her-pleasure-lauren-jimerson/
Pink Dolphins Bear Witness to the Amazon’s Destruction https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Emilija-Skarnulyte_Aequalia_still_4.jpeg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=100&ssl=1 Three shows in Manhattan wield film, sculpture, and archival ephemera to illuminate the historical threads of ecological devastation in the vast region. https://hyperallergic.com/873716/pink-dolphins-bear-witness-to-the-amazons-destruction-richard-mosse-emiliha-skarnulyte/
Emily Eveleth’s Doughnuts Bleed for Our Sins https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Eveleth3-1200x1405-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&quality=100&ssl=1 In Eveleth's work, debauchery and decadence meet in the lowly doughnut, which we are invited to read as a limbless torso with a dripping orifice. https://hyperallergic.com/873863/emily-eveleth-doughnuts-bleed-for-our-sins/
MoMA PS1 Workers Urge Director Connie Butler to “Settle a Fair Contract” https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/ps1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 In an action outside the museum, staff rallied for better wages and health benefits. https://hyperallergic.com/873871/moma-ps1-workers-urge-director-connie-butler-to-settle-a-fair-contract/
4,000 Art Workers Call for Israel’s Exclusion From the Venice Biennale https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/38229476114_72d905a95c_k.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 Nan Goldin, Michael Rakowitz, and others say that “platforming art representing a state engaged in ongoing atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza is unacceptable.” https://hyperallergic.com/873858/4000-art-workers-call-for-israel-exclusion-from-the-venice-biennale/
Albrecht Dürer, a Humanist Messiah https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/ALBRECHT-DUERER_SELBSTBILDNIS-IM-PELZROCK_CC-BY-SA_BSTGS_537.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 He believed, and demonstrated, that individuals could ascend to divine realms of knowledge. https://hyperallergic.com/873317/albrecht-durer-a-humanist-messiah/
Documenting Ridgewood’s Abandoned Tree Beds https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/40.6996-73.9055.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 Alexa Hoyer captures the remnants of tree trunks in the Queens neighborhood in accidentally artistic tableaux. https://hyperallergic.com/873592/alexa-hoyer-documenting-ridgewood-new-york-abandoned-tree-beds/
Jewish Voice for Peace Channels Young Lords in “Dump AIPAC” March https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/20240222_154745-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Echoing the Puerto Rican youth group’s 1969 "Garbage Offensive," JVP urged NYC officials to cut ties with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. https://hyperallergic.com/873552/jewish-voice-for-peace-channels-young-lords-in-dump-aipac-march/
Required Reading https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/C215-Missak-Manouchian-Mural-at-Fresnes-Prison.jpeg?fit=1024%2C569&quality=100&ssl=1 This week, tooth fairy troubles, viral “funny” trauma stories, Byzantine art, Frida Kahlo and indigeneity, and more. https://hyperallergic.com/873337/required-reading-669/
LA City Council Approves Over $1M to Clean Graffiti From Towers https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1981885286.jpg?fit=1024%2C672&quality=100&ssl=1 Additional funds were set aside to install fencing, remove scaffolding, and hire security services for the luxury development that was tagged in early February. https://hyperallergic.com/873358/los-angeles-city-council-approves-over-1m-to-clean-graffiti-from-oceanwide-plaza-towers/
Hartford Art School Celebrates Resident Artist Jonathan Herrera Soto in Solo Exhibition https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/untitled_split.png?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 Twice the Legal Minute explores the visual language of accumulation, debris, and neglect. On view at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. https://hyperallergic.com/871284/hartford-art-school-celebrates-jonathan-herrera-soto-solo-exhibition/
Artepaño Dispatches From the US Carceral System https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Alvaro-Ibarra-Exhibition-Thumbnail.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Álvaro Ibarra imagines correspondences by Chicano artists who endured incarceration in America. https://hyperallergic.com/873069/artepano-dispatches-from-the-us-carceral-system/
British Museum Hosts Runway Show With Parthenon Marbles as “Backdrop” https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/british-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 Greece Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the institution’s decision to allow Erdem’s show demonstrated “zero respect” for the sculptures. https://hyperallergic.com/873164/british-museum-hosts-runway-show-with-parthenon-marbles-as-backdrop/
Prince William and Ayo Edebiri Photo Becomes Meme About Royal Discomfort https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/ayo_prince-william_featured.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Sometimes, taking a moment out of context reveals a deeper truth. https://hyperallergic.com/872982/prince-william-and-ayo-edebiri-photo-becomes-meme-about-royal-discomfort/
10 Offbeat Art Events During LA’s Art Fair Week https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Volta2.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&quality=100&ssl=1 Performances, listening parties, exhibitions, and art bars provide a much-needed break from the market-driven frenzy. https://hyperallergic.com/872757/10-offbeat-art-events-during-los-angeles-art-fair-week-2024/
Brooklyn Cannabis Dispensary Restores Biggie Mural After Backlash https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/20240220_170258.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Emerald Dispensary in Bushwick had painted over the image of the rap legend, fearing that it would violate the state’s advertising regulations. https://hyperallergic.com/872407/brooklyn-cannabis-dispensary-restores-biggie-mural-after-backlash/
When Museums Become Instagram Bait https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Installation-view-of-Tara-Donovan-When-Forms-Come-Alive-7-February-—-6-May-2024.-Photo_-Jo-Underhill.-Courtesy-the-Hayward-Gallery4.jpg?fit=1024%2C648&quality=100&ssl=1 Many of the works in When Forms Come Alive are irredeemably superficial, as colorfully lightweight as they come. https://hyperallergic.com/872524/when-museums-become-instagram-bait-hayward-gallery-london/
At the IFPDA Print Fair, the Magic’s in the Details https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/mountain.jpg?fit=1024%2C744&quality=100&ssl=1 The show returns to the cavernous Park Avenue Armory with painstakingly intricate works that convey a commitment to an often underappreciated craft. https://hyperallergic.com/872334/at-the-ifpda-print-fair-2024-the-magics-in-the-details/
Massage Workers’ Collective Challenges Racism With Art https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/IMG_5442.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Red Canary Song's Flower Spa: Solidarity Outside In pays tribute to past victims of anti-Asian hate and fights against future racism. https://hyperallergic.com/872403/massage-workers-collective-challenges-racism-with-art-red-canary-song-flower-spa/
Pandora’s Box Unleashes a Universe of Male Oppression https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/PandoraBox_02.jpg?fit=1024%2C776&quality=100&ssl=1 Newly restored, G.W. Pabst’s 1929 film provides a bleak, unsettling account of a showgirl’s ruin at the greedy hands of competing male suitors. https://hyperallergic.com/872336/pandoras-box-unleashes-a-universe-of-male-oppression-film-forum/
Required Reading https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Jupiter-RR-image.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 This week, the problem with Goodreads, crackdowns on pro-Palestine activism, reflections from a MoMA stabbing victim, Just Dance makeup, and much more. https://hyperallergic.com/871029/required-reading-668/
Museum Selfie-Takers Are Causing Damage by Backing Into Artworks https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/adam-selfie-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Insurers warn of a "growing trend" as some visitors are more focused on stunting for the ’gram than having an ecstatic art experience. https://hyperallergic.com/872150/museum-selfie-takers-are-causing-damage-by-backing-into-artworks/
Could This Be Humanity’s Earliest Recorded Kiss? https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/thumb.jpg?fit=1024%2C624&quality=100&ssl=1 A Danish scientist-couple has pushed back the date of the earliest smooch by more than a millennium. https://hyperallergic.com/871953/could-this-be-humanitys-earliest-recorded-kiss/
Center for Book Arts Backs Out of Performance, Drawing Criticism https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/2020-performance.jpg?fit=1024%2C585&quality=100&ssl=1 The New York nonprofit said Marin Day and Kathryn Hamilton's artwork was “too closely aligned with the current conflict in Gaza.” https://hyperallergic.com/871819/center-for-book-arts-backs-out-of-kathryn-hamilton-marin-day-performance-drawing-criticism/
15 Art History-Inspired Valentine’s Day Cards https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/matisse-polycule-vday.jpg?fit=1024%2C680&quality=100&ssl=1 From polycules and break-ups to situationships and forbidden love, Hyperallergic has you covered this February 14. https://hyperallergic.com/870984/15-art-history-inspired-valentines-day-cards/
The Glittery History of Drag in New York City https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Ambrosia-Alert.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 Glitter and Concrete demands we take drag seriously as a cultural art form that responds to, critiques, and is a crucial part of American history. https://hyperallergic.com/871259/glitter-concrete-history-of-drag-in-new-york-city-elyssa-maxx-goodman/
MoMA Workers Urge Museum to Address Israel’s Attacks on Palestine https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2021/09/image00054-1-scaled.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 “We respectfully urge our institution to consider the impact of its silence,” reads the workers’ open letter. https://hyperallergic.com/871709/moma-workers-open-letter-urges-museum-to-address-israels-attacks-on-palestine/
Anti-Zionist Protesters Crash Event at NYC’s Jewish Museum https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/jmfeature_.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 The group of mostly Jewish activists called Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky’s paintings related to the Hamas attack "imperial propaganda" that serves to "manufacture consent for genocide." https://hyperallergic.com/871691/anti-zionist-protesters-crash-zoya-cherkassky-event-at-nyc-jewish-museum/
Inside the World’s Largest Comics and Cartoons Collection https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/snoopy.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University is an ultra-accessible shrine to the genre. https://hyperallergic.com/871001/inside-billy-ireland-cartoon-library-museum-ohio-state-university/
Ben Shahn’s Ever-Relevant Political Art https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Shahn-Italian-Landscape-1943-44-tempera-on-paper.-Walker-Art-Center-Minneapolis.jpg?fit=1024%2C796&quality=100&ssl=1 The American artist-activist’s work resonates with a special sharpness these days, more than half a century after his death. https://hyperallergic.com/868920/ben-shahn-ever-relevant-political-art/
French Protesters Throw Soup at Monet Painting in Lyon https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/53520936955_edc9cd63a8_k.jpg?fit=1024%2C679&quality=100&ssl=1 “This spring will be the only one we have left if we don’t react,” said activists who targeted the protective glass on Monet’s “Le Printemps.” https://hyperallergic.com/871433/french-protesters-throw-soup-at-monet-painting-in-lyon/
René Treviño’s First Museum Survey Is at the Wellin Museum of Art https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/11.ReneTrevino_RegaliaPremonition_PhotobyJohnBentham-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C818&quality=100&ssl=1 The artist explores astronomy, Maya and Aztec history, Catholic symbolism, and queer theory in nearly 200 works in this exhibition at Hamilton College. https://hyperallergic.com/870519/rene-trevino-first-solo-museum-show-wellin-museum-of-art/
10 Arrested in Protest Outside Brooklyn Museum https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/LEDE-OPTION.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Around 300 people gathered at the museum to decry Israel's bombardment of Gaza and the suppression of pro-Palestine voices. https://hyperallergic.com/871328/10-arrested-in-protest-outside-brooklyn-museum/
The Importance of Art in a “Good Death” https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Silva-Dennis.jpg?fit=1024%2C516&quality=100&ssl=1 The resurgence of deathcare workers across industries presents an opportunity to creatively reimagine what a good death can look like. https://hyperallergic.com/870789/the-importance-of-art-in-a-good-death/
MoMA Shutters as 500+ Protesters Infiltrate Atrium in Support of Palestine https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/20240210_154031.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Organizers unveiled a banner that read “MoMA Trustees Fund Genocide, Apartheid, and Settler Colonialism.” https://hyperallergic.com/871345/moma-shutters-as-500-protesters-infiltrate-atrium-in-support-of-palestine/
The Private Life of Paño Arte https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/116.jpeg?fit=975%2C1024&quality=100&ssl=1 When I first encountered paño arte in an art institution I was torn in my assessment of whether or not it belonged in a museum. https://hyperallergic.com/869813/the-private-life-of-pano-arte/
The Living Legacy of Funerary Arts https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/2-Burial-Cloth-Indonesia.jpg?fit=1024%2C643&quality=100&ssl=1 Funerary arts play a vital role in preserving key cultural values and knowledge keeping while reminding us of our humanity by so devotedly caring for the dead. https://hyperallergic.com/870617/the-living-legacy-of-funerary-arts/
The Writer Who Made Films to “Get Out of the House” https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Duras005.png?fit=1024%2C615&quality=100&ssl=1 A new book traces the development of Marguerite Duras, one of the 20th century’s greatest cinematic minds. https://hyperallergic.com/870959/writer-who-made-films-to-get-out-of-the-house-marguerite-duras-my-cinema/
National Academy of Design Presents Sites of Impermanence https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/2400-For-HA_Willie-Cole-_-5-BEAUTIES-RISING-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C569&quality=100&ssl=1 Featuring National Academicians Alice Adams, Sanford Biggers, Wille Cole, Torkwase Dyson, Richard Gluckman, Carlos Jiménez, Mel Kendrick, and Sarah Oppenheimer. https://hyperallergic.com/870080/national-academy-of-design-presents-sites-of-impermanence/
Kick Off the Year of the Dragon With 10 NYC Events https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/20230121_LunarNewYear_MikeSzpot_11.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 From dragon dances to pop-up teahouses, here’s what not to miss this Lunar New Year. https://hyperallergic.com/870401/kick-off-the-year-of-the-dragon-with-10-nyc-events/
Video of Israel Soldiers Handling Gaza Antiquities Raises Outrage https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Bac-a-sable.-Jarres-en-cours.jpg?fit=1024%2C684&quality=100&ssl=1 The video was posted online by Israel’s Antiquities Authority director-general. https://hyperallergic.com/868269/video-of-israel-soldiers-handling-gaza-antiquities-raises-outrage/
Spike Lee on His Collection of WWII Propaganda Posters https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Spike-Lee-and-Angelina-2-copy.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 The film director and New York icon discusses the trials and triumphs behind the posters featured in his Brooklyn Museum exhibition. https://hyperallergic.com/870314/spike-lee-on-his-collection-of-wwii-propaganda-posters-brooklyn-museum/
Women Are the Post-Apocalyptic Future https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Schutz.jpg?fit=1024%2C697&quality=100&ssl=1 Emma Talbot and Dana Schutz address societal, ecological meltdown, drawing attention to humanity’s absurdities while offering paths to eco-centric renewal. https://hyperallergic.com/870404/women-are-the-post-apocalyptic-future/
Organizers Handing Out Flyers Thrown Out of Brooklyn Museum https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Untitled-3.jpg?fit=1024%2C822&quality=100&ssl=1 The flyers explored links between the Black and Palestinian liberation movements and called out the museum’s sources of funding. https://hyperallergic.com/870459/organizers-handing-out-flyers-thrown-out-of-brooklyn-museum/
2,000+ Sign Letter of Support for Palestinian Professor Amin Husain https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/aminhusain_feature.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Walid Raad, Chloë Bass, and Ariella Azoulay are among those calling on NYU to reinstate Husain, who was allegedly suspended over his pro-Palestine speech. https://hyperallergic.com/870452/2000-sign-letter-of-support-for-palestinian-nyu-professor-amin-husain/
Pauline Curnier Jardin and the Feel Good Cooperative Collaborate on Roman Parties https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/Pauline-Curnier-Jardin_Rimske-vecirky_Dum-fotografie_GHMP_ph_Jan_Kolsky.png?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1 Videos and prints by Curnier Jardin and the collective of sex workers, artists, and architects are on view in this exhibition at Prague City Gallery. https://hyperallergic.com/869516/pauline-curnier-jardin-feel-good-cooperative-roman-parties-prague-city-gallery/
Art Collector Resigns From Boards After Claims of Inciting Violence at Palestine Protest https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/BFA_14170_1754855-copy.jpg?fit=1024%2C781&quality=100&ssl=1 Scott Lorinsky stepped down as trustee of CCS Bard and Visual AIDS in the wake of allegations that he instructed drivers to ram into pro-Palestine demonstrators. https://hyperallergic.com/870412/art-collector-scott-lorinsky-resigns-from-boards-after-claims-of-inciting-violence-at-palestine-protest/
8 Art Books to Read This February https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/BLACK-SUN-128.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&quality=100&ssl=1 Samia Halaby, the collaborative history of photography, ancient cave paintings, shapeshifting flocks of birds, and more to your art reading list. https://hyperallergic.com/870132/8-art-books-to-read-february-2024/
Hyperallergic Art Crossword: Spring Guide Special https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/crossword_spring_guide.png?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1 Try your hand at this crossword with a special focus on must-see shows in New York City this spring, from zines to public art. https://hyperallergic.com/869500/hyperallergic-art-crossword-spring-guide-special/
7 Art Shows to See in New York This February https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/02/1200Apollinaria-Broche-Detail-Shot-by-Hrag.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&quality=100&ssl=1 This month, Aki Sasamoto, Shary Boyle, Apollinaria Broche, Godzilla, and more. https://hyperallergic.com/869142/7-art-shows-to-see-in-new-york-february-2024/
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