Happy weekend! It was a tough week for historical art as a restoration at a Spanish church went wrong and a photo-seeker allegedly poured water on 6,000-year-old cave paintings to capture a clearer image.
Happy weekend! It was a tough week for historical art as a restoration at a Spanish church went wrong and a photo-seeker allegedly poured water on 6,000-year-old cave paintings to capture a clearer image. Maybe it’s time that expert conservators get recognized as the superheroes that they are! In more alarming news, the videographer who filmed the vandalism of the Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes was arrested and charged with a hate crime. The charge marks a troubling precedent in terms of journalistic freedom. On the brighter side of the news, Philadelphia has announced a new Armenian Heritage Walk anchored by artist Khoren Der Harootian’s statue “Young Meher,” unveiled in the city in 1976. The walk comes at a time when the Azerbaijani regime’s attacks on heritage sites in Artsakh threaten a cultural genocide. On a different note, Zoë Hopkins discusses Toni Morrison’s lifelong vision of centering the Black gaze in an incisive personal essay marking five years since the trailblazing writer’s death. There’s plenty more to enjoy this weekend, including Rebecca Schiffman’s review of a show that brings together Black women artists of different generations and Amy Golahny’s fascinating look at encounters between artists from the European Lowlands and Muslim-majority countries, on view at Harvard Art Museums. And make sure to check out the engrossing research and essays by our 2023–24 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators Brianna L. Hernández, Machiko Harada, Brian Johnson, Álvaro Ibarra, and Tiffany D. Gaines. This week, we highlighted their in-depth conversations with Hyperallergic’s Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian. — Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor | |
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| | | Morrison reminds us to dwell in Black visions, to give ourselves over to them entirely, and to do so in language that does not plead for understanding. | Zoë Hopkins |
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IN THE NEWS | | | A botched restoration in a Spanish church has heritage groups asking how a touch up of a cultural monument went so wrong. Spanish authorities are investigating a man believed to have poured water over various ancient cave paintings to take clearer photos for social media. Philadelphia’s “Young Meher” statue will anchor a new outdoor art exhibition commemorating Armenian strength and resilience in the face of genocide. Banksy’s stenciled silhouettes of a Nubian Ibex on a ledge and two elephants in windowsills raised questions about the elusive street artist’s messaging. Press freedom advocacy organizations expressed alarm at the decision to arrest and charge an independent journalist for reportedly filming the vandalism of several Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes. |
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FROM OUR FELLOWS | | | | Mining the rich legacy of art as a way to honor the dead, Hyperallergic Fellow Brianna L. Hernández traced the history of funerary arts to contemporary practitioners.
As a Hyperallergic Fellow, Machiko Harada mined the work and history of internment in sensitive essays and an online exhibition, which shed light on the artists grappling with its legacy. In his essays, exhibition, and video, Hyperallergic Fellow Brian Johnson sheds light on the overlooked history of Indigenous graphic arts.
Hyperallergic Fellow Álvaro Ibarra explored the motifs, circulation, and complex questions around ownership of the art tradition created by incarcerated Chicanos.
In her thoughtful essays and exhibition, Hyperallergic Fellow Tiffany D. Gaines carries us through the rich currents of Black Arts in Buffalo. |
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LATEST REVIEWS | | | | DON’T YOU MISS US? honors the trailblazing women who paved the way, underscoring the ongoing dialogue between past and present artistic expressions. | Rebecca Schiffman
The artist’s exhibition at the New-York Historical Society is clever, but it takes on a vast and messy past with a touch that is sometimes too light. | Alice Procter
Imagine Me and You encourages quiet contemplation of the juxtapositions and adaptations between the regions from 1450 to 1750. | Amy Golahny |
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| ON OUR READING LIST | | | | The Long Ride Home brings together selections from Ron Tarver’s 15,000 images chronicling Black cowboy culture across the US. | Isa Farfan
A new book resurrects the oft-overlooked story of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, whose dome was saved from collapse by a team of mathematicians and the Pope. | Anthony Majanlahti
Defying scholarly conventions, Marin Kosut’s latest book takes a searingly honest look at the “impossibility of New York” and the barriers artists face. | Mary Karmelek |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | Because in addition to leveraging a progressive voter base in his state and supporting reproductive freedom, the Minnesota governor knows how to behave around a couch. | Sarah Rose Sharp
Tips for arts organizations on how to get it right through times of inequity and unrest. | Lise Ragbir
Narrated by Lily Gladstone, the new film chronicles the tribe’s efforts to rekindle the traditional practice of stewarding a wild buffalo population. | Rhea Nayyar
Work by photographers from Guatemala to Brazil can be found in historically Latine neighborhoods across New York City. | Maya Pontone
This week: An archive of Palestinian embroidery, handwriting and Parkinson’s disease, anti-capitalist mending, Tim Walz’s love for maps, toxic roses, and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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THIS MONTH'S CROSSWORD | | | Spend the dog days of summer pondering MoMA’s 404 error page, frisky tourists in Rome, the art of glasses, and Olympics Bacchanalia. | Natan Last |
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