Good morning. Let’s start with a splash...
| Good morning. Let’s start with a splash — more specifically, the hot-pink paint that climate protesters poured on the protective glass of a Picasso at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Friday. Staff Writer Maya Pontone has the story. Meanwhile, a blogger who calls himself “Dark Lord of the Tech Right” has put together a proposal for the next US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale that is as unhinged as you might fear; Sarah Rose Sharp skewers it below. But in good news from a world on fire, the Ringling Museum of Art will not be transferred to the New College of Florida, much to the chagrin of Governor Ron DeSantis. More on that in this edition, plus reviews of Caravaggio and the late Algerian-German photographer Hamid Zénati. And it wouldn’t be a proper start to the week without the latest subject in our monthlong series on New York City’s LGBTQ+ art history: the legendary west-side piers and the gay art community that bloomed there. Enjoy, and have a lovely Monday. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | | |
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| | In the 1960s, amid the shipping industry's decline, the empty piers became a site for cruising and creativity for gay men in particular. | Rhea Nayyar |
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SPONSORED | | | | | The Toronto museum’s current season includes two comprehensive exhibitions by celebrated artists Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn and Andrea Carlson. Learn more |
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LATEST NEWS | | | "There are more than 200 wildfires in Canada at the moment," said a protester as he threw washable pink paint on the glass-protected portrait. | Maya Pontone |
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| | Florida lawmakers dropped Republican Governor Ron DeSantis's highly contested proposal to transfer control of the institution to the New College of Florida. | Maya Pontone |
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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | Not content to help disintegrate democracy here at home, the cheugy shit-poster is seeking to create a new low cultural watermark in a city known for its rising tides. | Sarah Rose Sharp |
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| | | A new retrospective of Hamid Zénati is also an important record of an interconnected North African modernism. | Dahlia Elsayed |
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| | | He seems to speak to us directly and clearly, given his love of striking light and shadow. We experience him personally. | Anthony Majanlahti |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | In his violent, carnal visions, sparks of divinity may glow even from within the blackest confines of our fallen reality. | Ed Simon |
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