We still have a few weeks of relative quiet before Donald Trump assumes office and excrement begins violentlycolliding with the fan. In the meantime, let’s enjoy some good art writing, shall we? In this edition, art historian Pamela Karimi writes about what she terms “Gestural Feminism” in Iran. Among her case studies is a recent protest by Ahoo (Mahla) Daryaei, the university student who stripped down to her underwear to protest the Islamic Republic’s draconian dress code. It’s a great read by Karimi, who authored a recent book about feminist art in Iran. Also this week: John Yau on Bob Thompson’s early works and friends, Faye Hirsch on Judy Pfaff’s maximalist plant-inspired installations, Louis Bury on painterly representations of the industrialization of the Hudson River, Bridget Quinn on Tamara de Lempicka’s cinematic portraits, Anna Souter on Vivian Suter’s abstractions, and so much more. We just turned 15 this fall. To continue our work as an ethical art publication not backed by a billionaire benefactor or a deep-pocketed corporation, we need your support. Please join our community of Hyperallergic members to help us weather a challenging time for independent journalism and remain free and ferocious. Have a great weekend! — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
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| | | Fearless, prolific, and protean from the start of his career, Thompson was able to absorb influences from both contemporary and historical artists without becoming derivative. | John Yau
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IN PERSPECTIVE | | | | Images of “We Are Our Mountains,” an Armenian monument in occupied Artsakh, have disappeared from Wikimedia Commons in the months since Azerbaijan’s invasion. | Yelena Ambartsumian
The student who stripped her clothes to protest the country’s oppressive dress code fits into an evolving movement of body-based feminist activism. | Pamela Karimi Studio glass practitioners pride themselves on rejecting industry, but the cyclone laid bare the movement’s entwinement with mining. | Erin E. O’Connor |
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THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS | | | | The filmmaker’s return to a more coincidental, permissive mode of observation in tandem exhibitions at Dia Chelsea and Beacon is enlivening, if not always incisive. | Alex Jen
For every idyllic image of the Hudson River Valley in Shifting Shorelines, there are many others in which human industry intrudes upon the view. | Louis Bury
At Wave Hill, the artist presents a teeming world of natural and artificial abundance. | Faye Hirsch |
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| | | | Marrying synthetic Cubism with 16th-century Italian Mannerism and the sensuality of Jean-Dominique Ingres, the artist’s work and life seem made for the silver screen. | Bridget Quinn
The fluidity of Suter’s approach to painting and mark-making conveys an ecological sensitivity to the interconnections between people and place. | Anna Souter
Across installations, paintings, and drawings, the artist searches for community and ancestries. | Liz Kim |
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IN AND AROUND NYC | | | | What started as a small feminist arts collective has grown to host hundreds of residents and publish countless books under its own imprint. | Maya Pontone
The works in the exhibition take us far away, as if to suggest that our complicated lineages are a point on which we connect. | Greta Rainbow
Matthew Chavez launched his participatory art project in 2016, creating a space for the city’s private sentiments in the wake of Trump’s first win. | Isa Farfan |
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| MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC | | | | The Filipino-born artist takes a journey through primordial mud, chimeric worlds, and suppressed psychic demons to honor trans people as channels of divinity. | Shaunak Mahbubani
A biography of Andy Warhol’s mother, São Paulo’s Neo-Avant-Garde, resplendent Hokusai works, plus new monographs and catalogs to check out this month. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Hakim Bishara, and Valentina Di Liscia
“These four hours every afternoon are sacred, and if anyone disturbs me, I will bite their head off as my poor family knows all too well.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
This week: the painting that inspired August Wilson, a lesbian magazine celebrates 50 years, sign language commodification, bodega cats in NYC, and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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| COMICS | | | | Meet the artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing justice movement in New York City. Part two of a series. | Noah Fischer |
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| | | | Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice at the Hammer Museum is guilty of a concerning lack of urgency. | Nathan Gelgud |
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