“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.
| 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 …
Reminder: Join us tonight for Hyperallergic’s virtual town hall, where we’ll tackle attacks on DEI in the art world with guest speakers Lise Ragbir and Ola Mobolade and answer your questions. Become a member here to attend. — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | | |
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| | In her immersive VR installation, the feminist pornographer asks viewers to interrogate their desire. | Camille Sojit Pejcha |
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LATEST REVIEWS | | | The various iterations of the artist’s schoolgirl avatar allude to a burgeoning womanhood at a crossroads of celestial being and commonality. | Seph Rodney |
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SPONSORED | | | | | The Seer, the Seen, the Seeing is the first work by a New Zealand artist to be selected for the Rakow Commission. Learn more |
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| | With the stringed qanun as its beating heart, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian’s show explores how music crosses boundaries and preserves collective memory. | Ela Bittencourt |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | An overdue retrospective of Ruth Asawa, Wayne Thiebaud’s art historical influences, Susan Weil’s otherworldly experiments, and more. | Max Blue |
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| | | Fola Fia’s satirical street signs draw attention to abuses of power, from Elon Musk to Andrew Cuomo to the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. | Isa Farfan |
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