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Good morning. 🌤️ Today, Colony Little talks to artist Betye Saar, a Danish artist takes a museum’s money and calls it a day, and a large new art space opens in Brooklyn.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Danish Artist Runs Away With Museum's Cash and Calls it Art

Artist Jens Haaning claimed that the stunt was in reaction to the low fees offered to him by the museum. | Hakim Bishara

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For Inspiration, Betye Saar Turns to Her Doll Collection

Saar's irreverent paintings of dolls from her collection celebrate the catharsis she found in play. | Colony Little

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An Exhibition at Krannert Art Museum Delves Into Louise Fishman’s Works on Paper

Remaking the abstract expressionist gesture and minimalist grid, the drawings on view at KAM at the University of Illinois center the artist’s identities as Jewish, feminist, and lesbian. Learn more.

What Might a New, 21,000-square-foot Art Space Bring to Brooklyn?

With the opening of the new, $40 million structure in East Williamsburg, it poses the question of its role in the local arts community — one of collaboration or conquest? | Sophia Stewart

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Photographer Fin Serck-Hanssen follows Hedda, a Norwegian in her early 20s, as she travels to undergo cosmetic surgeries and a vaginoplasty. | Lauren Moya Ford

What it Means to Break the Museum’s Most Sacred Rule

In 1989, Ed Brzezinski, on a visit to Robert Gober’s exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery, ate one of the donuts from Gober’s piece, “Bag of Donuts.” | Priya Gandhi

A Washed-up Porn Star Wreaks Trumpian Mayhem in His Hometown

Sean Baker’s film about a washed-up porn star seducing a teenage girl is sexually frank in a way few US films are now. | Grace Han

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