Good morning. “When they started to sell socks and NFTs of Hilma's art, it was just too much,” said Erik af Klint, board chair of the Hilma af Klint Foundation and the artist’s great-grandnephew, in a new interview with Hyperallergic. Speaking to Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar, he doubled down on his stance that the visionary abstract painter’s works should be removed from public view, only to be seen by “spiritual seekers” in a custom temple.
Speaking of, uh, spiritual awakenings, writer Camille Sojit Pejcha leads us through Erika Lust’s “immersive erotic experience” in Barcelona — a series of virtual and augmented reality installations that “invites viewers to engage with sexuality as they would any other artistic medium: critically, curiously, and without shame.”
Also today, Seph Rodney on Kelly Sinnapah Mary's shapeshifting visions of womanhood; Armenian-Argentinian artist Silvina Der-Meguerditchian channels music and migration in a show in Berlin; and a Brooklyn artist’s guerrilla street signs have some ideas for how to deal with those awful Tesla Cybertrucks …
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