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September 11, 2021 • View in browser

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Xiao Wang, "Drinkers" (2021), oil on canvas, 60 x 40 inches (courtesy the artist, Spring/Break Art Show)

If you're in NYC this weekend, we’ve rounded up a list of fairs, exhibitions, and events for you to explore, including Independent, Spring/Break Art Show, Art on Paper, and much more!

Seeing the Armory Art Fair as a Chance to Reconnect
Seph Rodney on how the Armory Show is "bringing parts of the art community together in celebration."

The Future Is Collaborative: A New Fair Embraces Unlikely Pairings and Profit-Sharing
Valentina Di Liscia on Future Art Fair.

With a Medieval Flair, Spring Break Art Show Celebrates the Eccentric
Hrag Vartanian on how this "grassroots art fair that continues to wow."

NEWS THIS WEEK

"Blocked" by Alejandro Prieto. Overall Winner and Bird Photographer of the Year 2021
(courtesy of BPOTY)

Alejandro Prieto’s image of a roadrunner at the US-Mexico border wins the top prize in this year's Bird Photographer of the Year awards.

The largest Confederate monument in the South, Richmond's Robert E. Lee statue finally comes down. 

Artist Pedro Reyes's sculpture of an Olmec woman will replace a statue of Columbus in Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma.

The HistoryMiami Museum is preserving the Surfside Wall of Hope, a temporary memorial to the victims of the Champlain Towers collapse.

Strike MoMA announces “Phase 2” of protests, kicking off a week of activities and organizing leading up to a city-wide action on September 17. 

ART

Anti-Apartheid protest in Trafalgar Square, London November 1985 Janine Wiedel (1985),
Trafalgar Square, London (© photo by Janine Wiedel)

Charting Black Resistance in the UK Since the 1940s
Aurelia Yusuf on War Inna Babylon, on view at ICA London

"This carefully curated exhibition lays bare the insidious nature of the subjugation of Black people in Britain on all fronts — not only by police violence but in employment, housing, education, politics — the list goes on."

When Artists Are Hackers
Caroline Ellen Liou on So Excited at Steve Turner in Los Angeles

The Lyrical and Funny Art of Erasing Words From Books
Lauren Moya Ford on Mary Ruefle: Erasures at Robert Frost Stone House Museum. 

Pat Adams, “Interior Matters” (1987), mixed media on paper, 18 x 25 1/2 inches

Beer With a Painter
Jennifer Samet sits down with artist Pat Adams, who "finds beauty in the earth and nature through layers of complication, chaos, and everyday labor."

What Does It Mean to Exhibit Nature?
Caroline Ellen Liou on Sean Raspet’s solo exhibition at Various Small Fires

Who Owns the Earth?
Louis Bury on Owning Earth Unison Arts

CAPTURING HISTORY

Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, Group of workers harvesting tea near Chakva in Georgia, 1905-1915 

Billy Anania explains how Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky and Maxim Dmitriev captured life under the last tsar, presenting different facets of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.

Bryan Martin examines the rich history of Mbari Ritual Houses and their broader influence on modernism, as well as their extinction at the hands of colonial and postcolonial violence.

Legarsi alla Montagna revisits the photographs of artist Maria Lai's initiative to tie a Sardinian village to a nearby mountain.

OPINION

Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow explore thepotential of public art spaces as platforms for both shared experiences and expressing community needs.

Charlotte Kent looks into the manipulation of visual culture and the impact of appearances on the recognition and credibility of internet imagery.

Richard Misek addresses the importance of hybrid film festivals and their potential to attract new and more diverse audiences.

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FILM AND DOCUMENTARY

Juliette Binoche as Claire Millaud in Who You Think I Am (courtesy Cohen Media Group)

Eileen G'Sell looks at how Juliette Binoche immerses herself into her role as the protagonist in Saby Nebbou’s latest feature, Who You Think I Am.

Dan Schindel analyzes at the empty nationalism of 9/11 documentaries and the meaning of "never forget" on the tragedy's 20th anniversary.

Toronto International Film Festival’s Wavelengths program for experimental and artists’ cinema returns with a robust lineup. Jordan Cronk highlights some of this year's features and shorts.

BOOKS

Karen Halverson, “Mulholland near Pacific Coast Highway” (1991) (copyright © Karen Halverson)

Karen Halverson captures this historic highway in slow, dense detail in her latest publication, Mullholland.

Megan N. Liberty considers how two new books reimagine the institutional frameworks that have shaped publishing and librarianship.

Patrick Nathan’s Image Control looks at how capitalism benefits from the reduction of human relationships to two-dimensional representations.

COMICS

Susan Coyne's comic stroll through Spring/Break spots a seersucker suit, spiders, and a giant sliced ham, among other curiosities.

Required Reading
This week, a New Museum tell all, MOCA's email paranoia, how cotton may be fueling a human rights crisis, UK troubling support of Arab Gulf monarchies, Judith Butler on "women," and much more.