| Good morning. ☁️ I hate to start with bad news, but it's hard not to when a white supremacist mob attacks a Black artist in Boston or when other Black artists in Philadelphia say they had been excluded from a commission for a Harriet Tubman statue. Also today: Dan Hicks has a warning about how restitution of looted artifacts is being conducted; Michael Glover delves into Raphael's résumé; Hall W. Rockefeller reminds Jeff Koons that other artists have sent work to space before him, and more. — Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief Become a Member As the global consensus on restitution passes the tipping point, some skepticism towards these sudden, improbable Damascene conversions towards restitution is probably justified. | Dan Hicks SPONSORED The Bay Area art book fair is back this July with free programming at three different on-site venues, new exhibitors, and fundraising editions from renowned artists. Learn more. WHAT'S HAPPENING Wesley Wofford’s “Harriet Tubman: The Journey to Freedom” (photo by Amaury Laporte via Flickr) The city of Philadelphia is drawing criticism for commissioning a White sculptor to complete a statue of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Musician and activist Charles Murrell was caught in a white supremacist march and injured on his way to work in Boston this weekend. The Getty Foundation announces a new pilot program funding ten two-year positions for underrepresented emerging arts professionals in LA. SPONSORED Convened by Erika Sprey, Lamin Fofana, Sky Hopinka, Emmy Catedral, and Manuela Moscoso, Conjuring #1 is happening this weekend (July 8–10) at CARA in NYC. Learn more. LATEST REVIEWS The Renaissance master was boundlessly ambitious and intimidatingly energetic, charming, good-looking, diplomatic, and utterly opportunistic. | Michael Glover Zadie Xa’s quilted textiles and Hernan Bas’s paintings of adolescent men enjoy a surprising but generative dialogue at San Francisco's Jessica Silverman gallery. | Claire Frost ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC While Koons may be a man on the moon, he’s looking back at Earth, oblivious to the vastness behind him, if only he would turn around. | Hall W. Rockefeller Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature accurately captures a certain kind of Balkan machismo. | Manuela Lazic IN MEMORIAM Jacki Apple (1941-2022)
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