Historic student protests in solidarity with the bombarded and starved people of Gaza have spread like wildfire across the United States this week.
Historic student protests in solidarity with the bombarded and starved people of Gaza have spread like wildfire across the United States this week. It all began at New York’s Columbia University, where tensions are about to reach a boiling point. Columbia journalism student and photographer Mukta Joshi brought us images and voices from the ground.
Meanwhile, the Venice Biennale has opened to the public. Read our contributors’ impressions from the exhibition and take a look at photos from Jeffrey Gibson’s kaleidoscopic US pavilion.
In our Opinion section, Elena Kanagy-Loux calls for more serious institutional treatment of “grandma” textile traditions, while curator Anna Sew Hoy responds to criticism on this publication related to her show Scratching at the Moon at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
There’s a lot more, including Jesse Lambert’s moving comic piece on Arshile Gorky, published on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. |
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HAPPENING IN NYC | | | Even the world's most proliferated images appear novel when they're blown up on glossy paper at the Photography Show presented by AIPAD. | Elaine Velie |
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| | This year’s show is an imaginative and openly political space that flies in the face of the commercial book sphere. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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| | A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society traces the city’s history through its long-forgotten monuments. | Aaron Short |
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AT THE VENICE BIENNALE | | | The exhibition brings resounding echoes of resistance amid an enduring struggle for Indigenous autonomy across the American continents. | Valentina Di Liscia |
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| | Everything Precious Is Fragile is an opportunity to collapse the conventions that define the nation in the global popular imagination. | Julie Baumgardner |
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| | Archie Moore and the Mataaho Collective took home Golden Lions for Australia and New Zealand, respectively. | Rhea Nayyar |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | Her paintings are searching for materially rooted forms while simultaneously reaching for something unfixed and uncontainable. | John Yau |
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| | Paintings from the late 1950s and on prove that de Kooning had sat at the feet of, and learnt much from, such old Italian masters as Titian and Tintoretto. | Michael Glover |
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| | In addition to being some combination of formally delectable, politically astute, and historically poignant, five solo shows currently in Chicago are hilarious. | Lori Waxman |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | Across the street from the painter’s former studio in Manhattan’s Union Square, 20 trees had been planted to honor the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide. | Jesse Lambert |
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| | While Asian-American Art may be “plagued by generational amnesia,” as Sharon Mizota wrote for Hyperallergic, the artists and curators of Scratching at the Moon are definitely not. | Anna Sew Hoy |
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| | When will art institutions finally pay respect to our foremothers’ artistry?es. | Elena Kanagy-Loux |
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| You Can’t Corgi-Wash Queen Elizabeth’s Colonial Legacy | The peoples crushed under British imperialism might not find Hywel Pratley’s tribute to the late monarch and her dogs so endearing. | Rhea Nayyar |
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| | This week, a new film on Amílcar Cabral, protecting Odesa’s historical buildings, rumors of the first US bullet train, pranking Google Maps, and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin and Elaine Velie |
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