Climate change activists who protest at museums should be punished by up to 10 years in prison — that’s what Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance proposes when he’s not busy spreading xenophobic rumors about Haitian immigrants. As the US presidential election draws near, we looked into where Vance and Kamala Harris’s running mate Tim Walz stand on the arts. Staff Writer Maya Pontone reports. Meanwhile, Philadelphia’s University for the Arts files for bankruptcy, while the Getty Museum apologizes for an over-the-top fireworks display in Los Angeles that left several people wounded. But there’s also some good news, like an upcoming traveling exhibition of Amy Sherald’s work, a new Latinx art book fair happening in New York this weekend, and the restoration of the Dutch Room at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which was plundered in a famous heist some 30 years ago. Other highlights this week include a glimpse into the lives of professional henna artists in the New York area, impressions from María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s participatory “Procession of Angels for Radical Love and Unity” through Manhattan, and excellent art, film, and book reviews by our contributors and staff. |
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Finally, we’re excited to invite you to celebrate Hyperallergic’s 15th anniversary with us at the Red Pavilion in Brooklyn on October 9. Priority tickets are available now for Hyperallergic Members. To join us as a member, visit hyperallergic.com/membership. |
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| | | Hyperallergic looked at the VP candidates’ track records in the culture sector, from Vance’s proposed penalties for climate protesters to Walz’s investment in Minnesota’s heritage. | Maya Pontone |
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SPONSORED | | | | There’s an artwork for everyone at Affordable Art Fair, where you might just find your next favorite piece. Learn more |
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IN NEW YORK | | | | With stops at sites of significance to Black and Cuban New Yorkers, the artist’s walking performance captures the essence of her practice: harnessing the collective toward a unified vision. | Valentina Di Liscia
The inaugural fair, spanning books, zines, posters, and academic publications, is organized by the university’s Latinx Project. | Isa Farfan
“I don’t think many people see henna as an actual art or service that is in demand or valued,” said 29-year-old henna artist Sabeen Marghoob. | Uzma Afreen |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | | In the Eye of the Storm conveys how Ukraine came to be a thriving center of avant-garde art in the early decades of the 20th century. | Michael Glover
What’s clear in Now You See Us is that the artists were excluded from the canon because of sociopolitical factors, not artistic merit. | Olivia McEwan
The artist has long been fighting for people with disabilities or marginalized identities, with sincerity, courage, and fierce love for the monsters in us all. | Lori Waxman |
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| | | | Arke’s art calls forth memories of Greenlandic Inuit life and reinscribes them with the reality of the body against its representation by White colonizers. | Ela Bittencourt
Martin’s capacity to weave cultural traditions together in her distinctive artistic voice translates into inventive drawings that center the joy of communing, confiding, and sharing meals. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Lacey Black and Aubrey Levinthal share a talent in their paintings for bringing inward and outward states together until they are one. | John Yau |
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WHAT WE'RE READING | | | | Though it glosses over his misogyny, Michael Peppiatt’s biography reflects Giacometti’s uncanny ability to capture the energy of ancient art in a modern format. | Bridget Quinn
A new essay collection contextualizes the activist’s life through the physical spaces that nurtured him, like Yuri Kochiyama’s apartment-turned-community center. | Shameekia Shantel Johnson
With The Warehouse, James Kilgore and Vic Liu counter the tendency to reduce people to stereotypes or mere statistics. | Greta Rainbow |
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A VIEW FROM THE EASEL | | | | This week, artists pluck color schemes from their tropical surroundings, sketch sigils to calm the mind, and turn a subway commute into an artistic ritual. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin | Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio. |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | Keep election-season woes at bay with masterworks of Black portraiture, musings on a Persian epic poem, Mickalene Thomas’s first international traveling solo show, and more. | Isabella Segalovich
The third edition of the free citywide event features artists including Cecilia Vicuña and Pamila Matharu. | Priya D’Souza McDonough
The artist would develop a distinctly Protestant imagery that replaced sacredness with utility, functioning essentially as propaganda minister for Martin Luther. | Ed Simon
The answer to this seemingly straightforward question reveals a few common misconceptions about our nation’s institutions. | Elaine Velie
This week, yoga and nationalism, opulent Tibetan mandalas, the environmental costs of ChatGPT, Earth’s temporary “mini-moon,” and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Residencies, grants, and open calls from the City of Melbourne, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. |
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