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October 19, 2022 • View in browserGood morning. 🌤️ Does the art world have a bias against people who are overweight? Curator Anna Mirzayan, and many people I know, think so. Mirzayan wrote quite a moving op-ed about this little-discussed problem. I recommend you read it. This is fun: We prepared a list of the best and worst museum restaurants in NYC, from the gourmet dishes of the Robert at the Museum of Arts and Design to the stale croissants of the New-York Historical Society's cafe. It's a useful resource. Enjoy it! Also today, the US finally features an Asian American on its currency, The Broad in LA is organizing the city's first-ever Keith Haring museum exhibition, Sandra Payne, Ken Lum, and more. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor Why Does the Art World Hate Fat People?Typical reactions to fat bodies in the art world range from pity to fascination. | Anna Mirzayan SPONSORED Boston Art Book Fair Returns This NovemberPresented by Boston Center for the Arts and Bodega, this free fair features art, books, prints, zines, and more by over 140 exhibitors. Learn more. WHAT'S HAPPENING Anna May Wong is the first Asian American to be featured on a US currency (courtesy US Mint) Anna May Wong will be the first Asian-American person to be honored on US currency via the American Women Quarters Program. A ballot measure in California's upcoming election could potentially allocate up to $1 billion in funding for arts education across the state. A new Holocaust museum, inspired by the work of artist Robert Sutz, is slated to open in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2025. SPONSORED Study Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn CollegeThe affordable graduate program emphasizes a multidisciplinary course of study, marrying art and tech with mentoring by professors in art, film, music, and theater. Learn more. LATEST IN ART Sandra Payne's Bling ManifestoThe unabashedly feminine oeuvre of the collagist, sculptor, and conceptual artist is a smorgasbord of shimmer and sequin, a bling manifesto for the senses. | Eileen G’Sell SPONSORED Vera List Center for Art and Politics Presents 2022 Forum, Correction*Taking place online and in person at The New School, programming includes a keynote lecture by Shuddhabrata Sengupta, a preview of an opera by Anna Martine Whitehead, and more. Learn more. Subverting Our Need for Instant GratificationA survey exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art looks at artists who took a revolutionary and subversive approach to the photographic image. | Rachel Harris-Huffman Ken Lum Holds Up a Mirror to the WorldWith their sophisticated interplay between image, text, materials, color, and driving ideas, Lum’s works often have a pronounced emotional impact. | Gregory Volk SPONSORED McEvoy Foundation for the Arts Celebrates Five Years in San Francisco With Color CodeThis exhibition presents new commissions by Bay Area artists Sadie Barnette, Angela Hennessy, Clare Rojas, and Zio Ziegler alongside work from the McEvoy Family Collection. Learn more. MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC Nine NYC Museum Restaurants to Dine at (or Skip)From the Whitney to the Guggenheim, we bring you the inside scoop on which museum dining options are worth their salt, and which could stand to add a little more. | Rhea Nayyar Prepare Yourself for LA's First Keith Haring Museum ShowArt is for Everybody at the Broad Museum will focus on the artist's life and activism. | Elaine Velie Support Hyperallergic's independent journalismBecome a member today to help keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. Become a MemberIN OUR STORE The Scream SocksCelebrate spooky season in these seamless, combed cotton socks featuring a stylish interpretation of Edvard Munch's “The Scream.” MOST POPULAR Six Artists I Discovered at Gowanus Open StudiosAffordable for Now, Sunset Park Rises as a Buzzing NYC Arts HubThe AI Halloween Art of Your Nightmares Is HereUp Close and Personal With Four Sunset Park ArtistsThe Mind-Bending Tree Sculptures of “Monsieur Plant”
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