Journalist Watchdogs Decry Egypt’s Arrest of Satirical Cartoonist https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/2117598123_de579188db_k.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 Ashraf Omar had published several cartoons that took aim at Egypt’s electricity cutbacks and the government’s economic strategy. https://hyperallergic.com/936896/journalist-watchdogs-decry-egypt-arrest-of-satirical-cartoonist-ashraf-omar/
Golden Foundation Celebrates 12 Years of Artist Residencies With Auction and Benefit https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/1-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 Taking place both online and in person, the auction provides additional support to artists selected for the Golden Residency Program. https://hyperallergic.com/934314/golden-foundation-12th-anniversary-artist-residency-auction-benefit/
Is Upstate Art Weekend Worth It? We Asked 11 Participants https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/upsate1.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 Buoyed by the beautiful weather, a constant stream of visitors showed up eager to learn about a cultural scene that continues to grow. https://hyperallergic.com/936181/is-upstate-art-weekend-worth-it-we-asked-11-participants/
The Art of Touch https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/1200PIOTROWSKA_SR-PIOT3234_VEN.webp?fit=1024%2C640&quality=95&ssl=1 An exhibition explores touch, from the possessive love of a mother holding her child to the violent and coercive contact that sometimes takes place between strangers. https://hyperallergic.com/935281/what-does-it-mean-to-be-touched-princeton-art-on-hulfish/
Is Toronto’s Art Triennial Just for Those “In the Know”? https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/GTA24_Husain.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 The triennial maps what it means to be an artist from here, from somewhere else but now living here, or from here but living somewhere else. https://hyperallergic.com/935761/is-greater-toronto-art-2024-triennial-just-for-those-in-the-know/
You Can’t Finish This Brian Eno Doc in a Single Lifetime https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Eno_still2.jpeg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=95&ssl=1 An algorithm organizes a unique ordering of scenes for each screening, meaning there are millions of versions of the film. https://hyperallergic.com/935717/you-cant-finish-this-brian-eno-doc-in-a-single-lifetime/
Dereck Stafford Mangus, Beloved Baltimore Artist and Museum Guard, Dies at 46 https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Dereck_Mangus_by_Christopher_Myers-scaled-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C769&quality=95&ssl=1 The local art community is mourning the loss of Mangus, who was also a union leader and an award-winning art writer. https://hyperallergic.com/935483/dereck-stafford-mangus-beloved-baltimore-artist-and-museum-guard-dies-at-46/
A View From the Easel https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Erik-Probst-studio-detail.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&quality=95&ssl=1 “Having more light and space immediately allowed me to make larger work, which I didn't even know I had in me.” https://hyperallergic.com/935323/a-view-from-the-easel-243/
Required Reading https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Luna-Park-Maia-Trump-Poster.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 This week, Abercrombie’s comeback, Marvel Cinematic Universe’s downfall, Moby Dick emojis, “survivor” trinkets at the Titanic Museum’s gift shop, and more. https://hyperallergic.com/935292/required-reading-690/
The Morgan Turns 100: Celebrate Timeless Stories and New Beginnings https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/1.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=95&ssl=1 The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates 100 years of illuminating the creative process, presenting remarkable exhibitions and programs for its centennial. https://hyperallergic.com/934715/morgan-library-and-museum-turns-100/
Shanghai Museum Welcomes Cats for Egyptian Antiquities Show https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/cats-egypt.jpg?fit=1024%2C894&quality=95&ssl=1 A special event will also include a “Cat Temple” where participants will have the opportunity to take photos with their furry companions. https://hyperallergic.com/935057/shanghai-museum-welcomes-cats-for-egyptian-antiquities-show/
In New York City, Palestinian Cinema Returns to the Screen https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Return-to-Haifa-3.jpg?fit=1024%2C718&quality=95&ssl=1 But some fear a “flash in the pan” effect and hope Palestinian films can be better integrated into the city’s vision of a global cinema. https://hyperallergic.com/934618/in-new-york-city-palestinian-cinema-returns-to-the-screen/
New York Gears Up for 2024 Upstate Art Weekend https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Sturgeon-Puppet-Greg-Corbino.png?fit=1024%2C681&quality=95&ssl=1 More than 145 arts venues will open their doors with exhibitions, open studios, free programs, and more, from a mermaid parade to a hot dog garden party. https://hyperallergic.com/934812/what-to-see-upstate-art-weekend-2024/
Alex Janvier, Indigenous Painter of Evocative Abstractions, Dies at 89 https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/MVA100203_DSC5423.jpg?fit=1024%2C681&quality=95&ssl=1 The artist and residential school survivor created vivid works that meld Denesuline iconography with modern and contemporary styles. https://hyperallergic.com/934599/alex-janvier-indigenous-painter-of-evocative-abstractions-dies-at-89/
Dancers Call for Fair Wages During Joan Jonas Performance at Getty https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/getty005.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 Performers say they received a $1,000 flat rate for a week of work including rehearsals and performances in 80-degree weather. https://hyperallergic.com/934682/dancers-call-for-fair-wages-during-joan-jonas-performance-at-getty-center-los-angeles/
Stream Media Art From Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora on PAMMTV https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/1.-Patssi-Valdez_Hot-Pink_2400x1350.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=95&ssl=1 Pérez Art Museum Miami’s new free streaming platform for video art fills gaps in moving image scholarship from the global majority. https://hyperallergic.com/933363/stream-media-art-latin-america-caribbean-african-diaspora-pammtv/
How Memes Unravel the Image of Trump as Martyr https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/DJT1200.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&quality=95&ssl=1 While cultural critics slobber over the former president’s media savviness, meme-makers are here to burst their disingenuous bubble. https://hyperallergic.com/934283/how-memes-unravel-the-image-of-trump-as-martyr/
Who’s Left Out of the Frame in the Viral Trump Shooting Photo? https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Trump-rally-newspaper-image.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 In the compulsive analysis of the former president’s image, we risk overlooking the mundanity of gun violence and its less mediagenic casualties. https://hyperallergic.com/934417/whos-left-out-of-the-frame-in-the-viral-trump-shooting-photo/
Bill Viola, Who Helped Make Video an Art Form, Dies at 73 https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/headshot.jpg?fit=1024%2C777&quality=95&ssl=1 The artist helped cement new media technology as a means of expression in works that explored life’s universal questions. https://hyperallergic.com/934309/bill-viola-who-helped-make-video-an-art-form-dies-at-73/
The Geometry in Motion of Nancy Holt https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/PAtiU-scaled.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&quality=95&ssl=1 A survey at Gropius Bau frames Holt as an artist committed to the human body’s actions and dimensions, and its perceptual and cognitive boundaries. https://hyperallergic.com/933729/the-geometry-in-motion-of-nancy-holt-gropius-bau-berlin/
Shunga Might Just Convince You That Pornography Is Art https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/aSq5z.jpeg?fit=1024%2C554&quality=95&ssl=1 Director Junko Hirata delves deep into the history and influence of the pornographic art form without cheap tittering at its illicit imagery. https://hyperallergic.com/933813/junko-hirata-shunga-might-just-convince-you-that-pornography-is-art/
New Book From Yale University Press Reshapes Our View of Van Gogh as Consummate Nature Painter https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Van-Gogh_Factories-at-Clichy.jpg?fit=1024%2C765&quality=95&ssl=1 David Ebony talks with art historian Michael Lobel about his new book, Van Gogh and the End of Nature. https://hyperallergic.com/932336/michael-lobel-book-yale-university-press-van-gogh-nature-painter/
The Serious Joy of Joyce J. Scott’s Beaded Art https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/image5-copy.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 The decorative allure of Scott’s textile and beaded creations seduces viewers into her sharp critiques of racism, misogyny, and other social ills. https://hyperallergic.com/933447/the-serious-joy-of-joyce-j-scott-retrospective-baltimore-museum-art/
Required Reading https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Pussy-Riot-Protest-photo-Max-Avdeev.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 Do White guys who say "inshallah" think they just fell out of a coconut tree? And much more. https://hyperallergic.com/933323/required-reading-689/
The Lost Art of Handwriting https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/p297-Inglis-c-Bodleian-Library-University-of-Oxford-scaled-copy.jpg?fit=1024%2C767&quality=95&ssl=1 A new book provides a glimpse into how some of the most resoundingly famous writers actually, you know, wrote. https://hyperallergic.com/928594/the-lost-art-of-handwriting-lesley-smith/
How Modern-Day Christian Iconoclasts Lost Their Heads https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Foto_03_c_Ulrich-Kehrer-1-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&quality=95&ssl=1 The vandal who beheaded Esther Strauss’s statue of the Virgin Mary in labor disregarded centuries-old depictions of the mother of God as just a mother. https://hyperallergic.com/933156/how-modern-day-christian-iconoclasts-lost-their-heads/
Where Funhouse Erotics Meet Art History https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/HHarkness-Book-3.jpg?fit=1024%2C687&quality=95&ssl=1 A new volume of Hilary Harkness’s paintings enfolds us into surreal worlds of gender-bending militaries, feminine revenge, and alternative histories. https://hyperallergic.com/928342/hilary-harkness-funhouse-erotics-meet-art-history/
Celebrating the Legacy of Abstract Painter Judith Rothschild at Moss Galleries https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/judith-rosthchild-1-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C940&quality=95&ssl=1 TPaintings, collages, and works on paper from the 1940s through the ’90s offer a glimpse into the evolution of this visionary artist. On view in Portland, Maine. https://hyperallergic.com/930799/celebrating-the-legacy-of-judith-rothschild-moss-galleries/
Artist’s Monument to Women Beheaded at University of Houston https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/01/20230118_163843-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=95&ssl=1 It’s unclear whether the attack on Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture is related to protests by anti-abortion groups, which previously denounced it as “satanic.” https://hyperallergic.com/932860/shahzia-sikander-monument-to-women-beheaded-at-university-of-houston/
Art History Majors Face Highest Unemployment Rates, Report Shows https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/undergrad.jpg?fit=1024%2C815&quality=95&ssl=1 But other data shows that art history and art degrees are still popular. https://hyperallergic.com/932628/art-history-majors-face-highest-unemployment-rates-report-shows/
Hugh Hayden Should Cut the Crap https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/IMG_0870-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 The artist’s latest show belongs in the toilet — and that’s exactly where he put it. https://hyperallergic.com/924353/hugh-hayden-should-cut-the-crap/
The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse Is on View at the Crocker Art Museum https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Antemann_Cameo_Crocker-scaled.jpg?fit=683%2C1024&quality=95&ssl=1 Discover how a Classical vase became an artistic and commercial muse across time and place at this exhibition in Sacramento, California. https://hyperallergic.com/930908/the-portland-vase-mania-and-muse-crocker-art-museum/
Stunning Pale-Blue Frescoes Found in Pompeii https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Blue-room-parete-sud.jpg?fit=1024%2C701&quality=95&ssl=1 The Ancient Roman room, thought to have been used as a shrine for ritual activities, is estimated to date back approximately 2,000 years. https://hyperallergic.com/924422/stunning-pale-blue-frescoes-found-in-pompeii/
Most NY Artists Are Financially Unstable, Survey Finds https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/floor-paint.jpg?fit=1024%2C821&quality=95&ssl=1 More than half of respondents said they earned under $25,000 a year. https://hyperallergic.com/932243/most-ny-artists-are-financially-unstable-survey-finds/
Site Santa Fe Presents Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/TF-SITE-Santa-Fe-Select-Caribbean-Cosmos.jpg?fit=1024%2C721&quality=95&ssl=1 Co-curated by Teresita Fernández and Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, this exhibition places two artistic practices in an intergenerational conversation. https://hyperallergic.com/931552/site-santa-fe-teresita-fernandez-robert-smithson/
Unearthing the Land’s Buried Stories at the Venice Biennale https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/05/Portugal-Pavilion-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=95&ssl=1 Artists at the Irish, Hãhãwpuá, Portuguese, and Dutch pavilions are exploring notions of land and rematriation — often by bringing soil itself into the gallery space. https://hyperallergic.com/915003/unearthing-the-lands-buried-stories-at-the-venice-biennale-2024/
Abigail Dudley’s Paintings of the Observed and Imagined https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Emmanuel_featured.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 I can think of no other painter who can so effectively pull the viewer into a space where clarity and puzzlement cannot be separated. https://hyperallergic.com/930487/abigail-dudley-paintings-of-the-observed-and-imagined/
Six Art-World Cool Kids Take Over Abandoned High School in Upstate NY https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/DSC08365.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 At The Campus, pairings of works by over 80 artists yield unexpected dialogues in classrooms, hallways, a gym, and even a science lab. https://hyperallergic.com/930948/six-art-world-cool-kids-take-over-abandoned-high-school-in-upstate-new-york-the-campus/
Seven Art Shows to See in NYC Right Now https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Ford4.jpg?fit=1024%2C715&quality=95&ssl=1 From Eva Hesse’s spectacular sculptures to Walton Ford’s fantastic beasts, make sure to catch some of New York’s best shows this July. https://hyperallergic.com/931285/seven-art-shows-to-see-in-nyc-right-now/
How Do You Picture a President? https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/NPG_2007_194_featured.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 We might think that many of our olde tyme presidents hearkened from an age before photography, but this exhibition of daguerreotypes proves that wrong. https://hyperallergic.com/920505/how-do-you-picture-a-president-national-portrait-gallery/
Bimbola Akinbola’s Postcards From Grief Island https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/IMG_5371.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 Though the show is a response to a period of intense personal mourning in the artist’s life, it’s also achingly universal. https://hyperallergic.com/931155/bimbola-akinbola-postcards-from-grief-island/
Norman Kleeblatt’s Very New York Story https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/Norman_2024-3_featured.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 “My question to myself was whether and how to be an ‘out Jew’,” the longtime curator told Hyperallergic in an interview. https://hyperallergic.com/931022/norman-kleeblatt-very-new-york-story/
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This July https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/R-Co-6-26-028.jpg?fit=1024%2C710&quality=95&ssl=1 This month: Gordon Parks’s iconic photographs, Wendy Red Star’s Indigenous abstractions, Chiffon Thomas’s unsettling mixed media sculptures, a celebration of Juxtapoz Magazine, and more. https://hyperallergic.com/929283/10-art-shows-to-see-in-los-angeles-july-2024/
15 Art Shows to See in New York City This Summer https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/07/11_becoming_Suchitra-Mattai_Socrates-Sculpture-Park_Image-Scott-Lynch-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 From the Bronx-forward work at Wave Hill down to Robert Podavano’s liminal paintings in Staten Island, shows that’ll make you want to stick around a sweltering city. https://hyperallergic.com/929743/15-art-shows-to-see-in-new-york-city-summer-2024/
Museum of Jurassic Technology Aims to Recreate Islamic Spain in LA https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/9_MJT_Mudujar-laceria-ceiling.jpg?fit=1024%2C698&quality=95&ssl=1 The museum known for its mix of history and whimsy received support from the Getty and Mike Kelley Foundations to take on its most ambitious project yet. https://hyperallergic.com/924580/museum-of-jurassic-technology-aims-to-recreate-islamic-spain-in-los-angeles/
Opportunities in July 2024 https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/rocksatthelighthousebiarritz-joaquinsorollaybastida.jpg?fit=1024%2C608&quality=95&ssl=1 Residencies, grants, and open calls from Palm Beach Atlantic University, AICA International, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. https://hyperallergic.com/929189/opportunities-july-2024/
Seattle Art Fair Returns This Summer https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/sfabf-featuredimage.png?fit=1024%2C576&quality=95&ssl=1 A one-of-a-kind showcase for the arts community of the Pacific Northwest, Seattle Art Fair returns to Lumen Field for its eighth edition this July. https://hyperallergic.com/928976/seattle-art-fair-2024/
6 Art Books to Cure the Summer Reading Slump https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/JulyBooks.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 This July’s list is short and sweet with titles on artist lofts in New York City, photos of abortion workers by Carmen Winant, a how-to guide for comic artists, and more. https://hyperallergic.com/929468/6-art-books-to-cure-the-summer-reading-slump/
Deborah Bright’s Art Puts the Sex Back in Sexuality https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Deborah-Bright-.jpg?fit=1024%2C764&quality=95&ssl=1 “My desires are pretty fluid and I openly embrace the different erotic subjectivities that inhabit my brain,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic. https://hyperallergic.com/929167/deborah-bright-art-puts-the-sex-back-in-sexuality/
Activists Drop Banners for Gaza at NYC AIDS Memorial https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/alexa-one.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 Protesters urged Biden to “stop arming Israel” ahead of the president’s attendance at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center opening. https://hyperallergic.com/929750/activists-drop-banners-for-gaza-at-nyc-aids-memorial/
Presidential Debate Memes That Channel Our Never-Ending Screams https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/American-Gothic-Debate.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=95&ssl=1 We must find ways to laugh so that we don’t cry, and the depressing material from last night is undoubtedly premium crop ripe for picking on. https://hyperallergic.com/929784/trump-biden-presidential-debate-memes-that-channel-our-never-ending-screams/
NYC Cultural Orgs Push for Funding as Budget Deadline Looms https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2158447355.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 Local advocates and institutions have called for an additional $53 million to raise the city’s cultural budget baseline. https://hyperallergic.com/923524/nyc-cultural-orgs-push-for-funding-as-budget-deadline-looms/
Required Reading https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Spanish-Steps-photo.jpeg?fit=1024%2C682&quality=95&ssl=1 This week: curation and BDSM, America’s first lesbian magazine, myths about the human brain, and is smutty literature hurting our romantic relationships? https://hyperallergic.com/929208/required-reading-687/
A View From the Easel https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Joshua-Rainer-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 “I learned my studio has been occupied by 50 other artists from 25 countries, which fascinates me greatly.” https://hyperallergic.com/928847/a-view-from-the-easel-240/
San Francisco Art Book Fair Is Back in July With Its Seventh Edition https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/SFABF_hyperallergic_sponsor_post_2400x1350.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=95&ssl=1 Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF boasts 145 exhibitors from around the world, more in-depth programming, and an expanded footprint. https://hyperallergic.com/928650/san-francisco-art-book-fair-2024/
The Badass Punk Life of Kay Turner https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/KT1_kay-turner-ritual-bitch-vanessa-haney-2023-blue-copy-copy.jpg?fit=934%2C713&quality=95&ssl=1 Instead of “elder,” the 75-year-old artist, scholar, and bandleader prefers the moniker "magnificent hag." https://hyperallergic.com/928988/the-badass-punk-life-of-kay-turner/
Artist of Fiery King Charles Portrait Debuts Moss-Green Attenborough Painting https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Sir_David-Attenborough_featured.jpg?fit=1024%2C751&quality=95&ssl=1 Green? For David Attenborough? Groundbreaking. https://hyperallergic.com/929179/artist-of-fiery-king-charles-portrait-debuts-moss-green-attenborough-painting/
The Fetishistically Fantastic Art of Christina Ramberg https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/R08_P33-Press300ppi3000pxsRGBJPEG1.jpg?fit=1024%2C749&quality=95&ssl=1 Ramberg was one of the lesser-known — but, to my mind, most exciting — artists often grouped together as the Chicago Imagists. https://hyperallergic.com/922998/the-fetishistically-fantastic-art-of-christina-ramberg/
Moi Aussi Presents Its Art Manifesto https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/moiaussi-featuredimageA.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&quality=95&ssl=1 Moi Aussi is uniting artists from all over the world around an unusual canvas: a pair of glasses. https://hyperallergic.com/927057/moi-aussi-presents-its-art-manifesto/
Florida Art Orgs Scrambling After DeSantis Cuts All Culture Grants https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Photo-Courtesy-of-Norton-Museum-of-Art3.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 The Republican governor left hundreds of cultural organizations high and dry after he scrapped $32M in funding for the sector. https://hyperallergic.com/928488/florida-art-orgs-scrambling-after-desantis-cuts-all-culture-grants/
The Art History of Addiction and Recovery https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/1200Caravaggio_-_Autoritratto_in_veste_di_Bacco_Bacchino_malato_1595_circa_534-copy.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&quality=95&ssl=1 Scholar and psychotherapist Kikan Massara elucidates and contextualizes the 12-step recovery process through paintings, prints, and other works of art and literature. https://hyperallergic.com/926674/the-art-history-of-addiction-and-recovery-kikan-massara/
IDSVA’s Non-Studio PhD Is for Artists and Creative Thinkers https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/IDSVA-at-the-Venice-Biennale-June-2024.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts is accepting applications for September 2024. https://hyperallergic.com/927583/idsva-non-studio-phd-for-artists-creative-thinkers-summer-2024/
All the Beauty and the Tenderness of Nan Goldin https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/DSC0614-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 “I'm not so interested in photography anymore,” Goldin told our senior editor. “That should be the headline,” he replied. https://hyperallergic.com/925479/all-the-beauty-and-the-tenderness-of-nan-goldin/
Tourist Detained After Vandalizing Ancient Pompeii House https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1397233652.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 The man scratched the letters "ALI" on the House of Ceii, one of few remaining examples of residential architecture from the late Samnite period. https://hyperallergic.com/928503/tourist-detained-after-vandalizing-ancient-pompeii-house-of-ceii/
Marlene McCarty’s Unorthodox Visions in Ballpoint Pen https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/01.MMCCDrawing2001.jpg?fit=1024%2C723&quality=95&ssl=1 The artist talks about her epic drawings, her work in the AIDS activism collective Gran Fury, and why plants may hold the key to taking back our bodies. https://hyperallergic.com/927990/marlene-mccarty-unorthodox-visions-in-ballpoint-pen/
Required Reading https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/ENESS-iwagumi-i-Light-Singapore-photo-credit-Finbarr-Fallon-0Q2A4006.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 This week, Miss Piggy’s mom, American fiction’s fatphobia problem, the shady underbelly of glass-eel fishing, Chappell Roan, and what did Old English sound like? https://hyperallergic.com/927697/required-reading-686/
Lola Flash Has Got Some Stories to Tell https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/LolaFlash-by-Christa-Holka_L-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&quality=95&ssl=1 “For years, I didn’t want acceptance from the art world. I wanted the opposite, to be honest,” the photographer told Hyperallergic in an interview. https://hyperallergic.com/927522/lola-flash-has-got-some-stories-to-tell/
Alex Katz’s Love Affair With Maine https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Alex-Katz-Maine-Dog-Fountain-copy.jpg?fit=1024%2C766&quality=95&ssl=1 The artist has donated over 150 works from his foundation’s collection to the Portland Museum of Art, among other institutions in the state. https://hyperallergic.com/921127/alex-katz-love-affair-with-maine-portland-museum-art/
A View From the Easel https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Fratione-studio-_-on-top-of-drawing-table-Cianne-Fragione.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 “When I am deep into the work, I no longer hear music, as it is pure muscle memory.” https://hyperallergic.com/926976/a-view-from-the-easel-239/
Stamps Gallery Presents Elizabeth Youngblood: Syntax https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/elizabethyoungblood-arcstudy.png?fit=1024%2C780&quality=95&ssl=1 The gallery’s summer season also includes Asmaa Walton: Black Art Library and Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins. On view in Ann Arbor, Michigan. https://hyperallergic.com/926646/stamps-gallery-presents-elizabeth-youngblood-summer-2024/
A Summer Solstice Tarotscope for the Art World https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Stones2-copy-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&quality=95&ssl=1 For each solstice and equinox, Hyperallergic will present a tarotscope with a special focus on the arts and creative practice, to mark the turning of the seasons. https://hyperallergic.com/926741/a-summer-solstice-tarotscope-for-the-art-world/
Climate Protesters Douse Stonehenge in Orange Powder https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/IMAGE_19062024_JustStopOil_Stonehenge_003.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 Two Just Stop Oil activists were arrested after spraying the structure with what they say is washable orange cornflour ahead of the summer solstice. https://hyperallergic.com/927318/climate-protesters-douse-stonehenge-in-orange-powder/
An Artist Contends With Brooklyn’s History of Enslavement https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/banner-billlow.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 Adama Delphine Fawundu’s installation at the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park honors the 25 individuals who were once enslaved there. https://hyperallergic.com/927017/artist-adama-delphine-fawundu-contends-with-brooklyn-history-of-enslavement/
Social Tensions From Antiquity to the End of the World https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/CP-Austin-Richey-25.jpg?fit=1024%2C684&quality=95&ssl=1 The trials of a post-apocalyptic New York and hedonistic Rome become one another’s mirrors and choirs in The Industry’s double opera Comet/Poppea. https://hyperallergic.com/927093/social-tensions-from-antiquity-to-the-end-of-the-world-comet-poppea-opera/
Krannert Art Museum Hosts First Solo Exhibition of Artist Jen Everett https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/JenEverett.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 Could you dim the lights? showcases how Everett remixes images of herself with found photographs to discuss Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. On view in Champaign, Illinois. https://hyperallergic.com/926894/krannert-art-museum-first-solo-exhibition-jen-everett/
With a New Home and a New Name, LAXART Returns as “The Brick” https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/PopeLMural1.jpg?fit=1024%2C766&quality=95&ssl=1 The LA arts nonprofit is marking a new chapter in its 20-year history. https://hyperallergic.com/925273/with-a-new-home-and-a-new-name-laxart-returns-as-the-brick/
Art Dealer Barbara Gladstone Dies at 89 https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/IMG_3073.jpg?fit=1024%2C928&quality=95&ssl=1 Gladstone, whose namesake gallery represents over 70 artists and estates, opened her first location in Manhattan in 1980 in a space “the size of a shoebox.” https://hyperallergic.com/926661/art-dealer-barbara-gladstone-dies-at-89/
Five New York Shows to See Before June Ends https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/IMG_3010.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 From Niki de Saint Phalle to the subway, time is running out to see some of our favorite art in the city. https://hyperallergic.com/925932/five-new-york-shows-to-see-before-june-2024-ends/
Artists Rally at Hammer Museum After Arrests at UCLA https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/IMG_5196.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 Police thwarted efforts to build a new Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the campus earlier in the week. https://hyperallergic.com/926339/artists-rally-at-hammer-museum-after-arrests-at-ucla/
A Project Honoring Victims of Police Violence Is Going Cross-Country https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/bday-opening.jpg?fit=1024%2C723&quality=95&ssl=1 The new phase of the 1-800 Happy Birthday art initiative aims to raise national awareness about the "epidemic of state violence." https://hyperallergic.com/877656/worthlessstudios-project-honoring-victims-of-police-violence-is-going-cross-country/
Kehinde Wiley Exhibitions Halted After Sexual Assault Allegations https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1351774554-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 The Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Joslyn Art Museum are not moving forward with shows of the artist’s work. https://hyperallergic.com/925795/kehinde-wiley-exhibitions-halted-after-sexual-assault-allegations/
Animal Rights Activists Target New King Charles Portrait https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/charles-wallace.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 The action was in protest of allegations against the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where King Charles III is a patron. https://hyperallergic.com/925018/animal-rights-activists-target-new-king-charles-portrait/
Phoebe Helander Paints Objects in Time https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Helander-Egg-2024-oil-on-linen-11.25-x-14-inches.jpg?fit=1024%2C831&quality=95&ssl=1 Helander removes her art from the frozen time in which still life paintings exist and reminds us that the moment recreated has already come and gone. https://hyperallergic.com/924648/phoebe-helander-paints-objects-in-time/
Mineo Mizuno Explores Earth’s Fragile Ecosystem in New Sculpture at The Huntington https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/homagetonature-mineomizuno.png?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 Crafted from fallen timber the artist gathered in the Sierra Nevada forests, this site-specific work is set in the botanical gardens at the Los Angeles institution. https://hyperallergic.com/923008/mineo-mizuno-explores-earth-ecosystem-sculpture-the-huntington/
Paul Wong Is Queering Chinatown https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/paul-wong-featured.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 The artist, curator, and organizer opens up and blurs the boundaries between categories, experimenting with new spaces and methods of moving through the world. https://hyperallergic.com/923838/paul-wong-is-queering-chinatown/
10 Exhibitions to Visit in Washington, DC, This Summer https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/WM1200-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C889&quality=95&ssl=1 Lose yourself and find hope in women and queer-led shows in the capital this season. https://hyperallergic.com/922677/10-exhibitions-to-visit-in-washington-dc-summer-2024/
Announcing the 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/2024-McKnight-Fellows-Group-Image-for-Hyp.-Ad-REVISED.jpg?fit=1024%2C631&quality=95&ssl=1 Designed to support mid-career Minnesota artists, fellows each recieve a $25,000 stipend, professional development, a residency, and more. https://hyperallergic.com/922773/announcing-2024-mcknight-visual-artist-fellows/
Harmony Hammond’s Ongoing Revolution https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Harmony-Hammond1200.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&quality=95&ssl=1 The mainstream art world might finally be catching up with Hammond, who has been breaking barriers for more than six decades. https://hyperallergic.com/924019/harmony-hammond-ongoing-revolution/
The Unlikely Story of Brooklyn’s Bishop Gallery https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/IMG-20240607-WA0000.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 Brooklyn residents and best friends Stevenson Dunn Jr. and Erwin John founded the beloved gallery without any background in the arts. https://hyperallergic.com/923818/the-unlikely-story-of-brooklyn-bishop-gallery/
The Unspoken Truths in Jenny Holzer’s Truisms https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/rotunda8-copy.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&quality=95&ssl=1 Gaza is everywhere across the artist’s Guggenheim show, but you wouldn’t know it. https://hyperallergic.com/916808/unspoken-truths-jenny-holzer-truisms-light-line-guggenheim-museum/
Artist Breaks Her Sculpture in Protest at San Francisco Jewish Museum https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/CJAFP_JVPBA_CJMArtAction_2024.6.6_NDeRenzi-11.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 Anti-Zionist Jewish artists withdrew their work from the institution earlier this month, demanding divestment from entities affiliated with Israel. https://hyperallergic.com/923778/artist-breaks-her-sculpture-in-protest-at-san-francisco-contemporary-jewish-museum/
UArts Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Labor Violations https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/isa.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 Staff are seeking two months of pay, healthcare coverage, and damages after the Philadelphia arts school abruptly announced its closure. https://hyperallergic.com/923446/uarts-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-alleged-labor-violations/
Required Reading https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/NASA-northern-lights-images.jpeg?fit=1024%2C683&quality=95&ssl=1 This week, minstrelsy and AI, groundbreaking lesbian athlete Helen Stephens, British pubs are struggling to stay afloat, and more. https://hyperallergic.com/921439/required-reading-684/
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monument to Empathy https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Frazier6.jpg?fit=837%2C1024&quality=95&ssl=1 Though Frazier's photography is often described as “documentary,” it betrays a thorough investment in and interchange with those she photographs. https://hyperallergic.com/923068/latoya-ruby-frazier-monument-to-empathy-moma/
Catherine Opie’s Unrelenting Fight for Visibility https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/Catherine_featured.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 From street snapshots to resplendent studio photographs, the artist draws us powerfully into her life-long project of bearing witness to her community. https://hyperallergic.com/922789/catherine-opie-unrelenting-fight-for-visibility/
Activists Decry “Show of Force and Violence” at Brooklyn Museum Protest https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/maya5bm.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 The museum acknowledged that “the police brutality that took place was devastating” but said it did not call the NYPD. https://hyperallergic.com/922652/activists-decry-show-of-force-and-violence-at-brooklyn-museum-protest/
Katherine Bradford Is Just Getting Started https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/image00013-scaled.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&quality=95&ssl=1 “I don't think anybody believed I could be an artist,” the 82-year-old artist told Hyperallergic in an interview. https://hyperallergic.com/921559/katherine-bradford-is-just-getting-started/
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