Today in the news: The Taliban bans images of living beings “with a soul” in some Afghan media, a Mexican museum removes an artwork offensive to sex workers, and a sculpture of a giant pigeon is unveiled at New York’s High Line, revealing the little-known phenomenon of “pigeon influencers.”
Today in the news: The Taliban bans images of living beings “with a soul” in some Afghan media, a Mexican museum removes an artwork offensive to sex workers, and a sculpture of a giant pigeon is unveiled at New York’s High Line, revealing the little-known phenomenon of “pigeon influencers.”
We also address the following questions: Is the art world more money-driven than ever? Why was Jerry Lewis’s Holocaust film never released? And what’s with all this talk about monsters in art? As usual, there’s more. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
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| | | Real or imagined, the monsters envisioned in the show Among Monsters do not exist without us. | Nancy Zastudil |
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SPONSORED | | | This residency at the UM Stamps School partners with the UM Museum of Art offering a $20,000 honorarium, housing, studio space, and the museum apse as activation space. Learn more |
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EXHIBITION REVIEWS | | | | The artist created many mosaics and murals around East Harlem in celebration of important figures in Puerto Rican and Latinx communities. | Livia Caligor |
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SPONSORED | | | Modern Women / Modern Vision: Photographs from the Bank of America Collection is on view this fall at the Upstate New York museum, with two more exhibitions coming in 2025. Learn more |
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| | | The artist’s film installation centers on the character of Lo Ting, the human-fish folkloric ancestor of the people of Hong Kong. | Anna Souter |
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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | Rachel Spence succinctly explicates the power struggles that brought us to this point, though her insistence that the art ecosystem is at an all-time low left me unconvinced. | Jasmine Weber |
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| | | | Why did Jerry Lewis spend so much energy concealing The Day the Clown Cried, even in death? | Ari Richter |
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| | | | Farm/Art DTour, a 50-mile circuit of art installations in Wisconsin’s Sauk County, challenges visitors’ assumptions about the “rural-urban” or “red-blue” divide. | Isabella Segalovich |
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IN MEMORIAM | Gloria Bornstein (1937–2024)
Film, performance, and installation artist | Seattle Times
François Duret-Robert (1932–2024)
French art journalist and expert in art law | Le Figaro
James Greer (1934–2024)
Scottish woodblock printer | Herald Scotland
David Garrard Lowe (1933–2024)
Architectural historian and preservation advocate | New York Times
Paul Lowe (1963–2024)
British photojournalist who captured the fall of Yugoslavia | New York Times
Janet Petry (1939–2024)
Collector and curator of folk art | Chicago Sun-Times
Lillian Schwartz (1927–2024)
Pioneering computer artist | New York Times |
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