| Times are fraught as American democracy hangs in the balance, but at least we have the arts, right? We can't be so sure anymore. After taking over the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Trump and his enablers dig their claws into the Smithsonian Institution. The president issued mandates prohibiting funding of exhibitions or programs that “degrade shared American values,” “divide Americans based on race,” or “recognize men as women,” among other regressive edicts. In their report below, News Editor Valentina Di Liscia and Staff Writer Maya Pontone explain how this new executive order also echoes racist, pseudoscientific beliefs from history’s darkest episodes. Meanwhile, life goes on with the Frick Collection in New York and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, reopening soon after years-long renovations and expansions. Aaron Short visited both to bring us a peek. Also, don’t miss the latest episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast, in which Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian speaks with Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher and Seph Rodney about their exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. We also bring you impressions from two print art fairs in New York this weekend, plus a guide on what to look for when buying a print, according to artists and curators. There’s much more, as usual, including new books on Celia Paul and Mary Cassatt, scorching memes about Washington’s “Signalgate,” and the team behind a feminist audio guide at The Met. Please support us by becoming a Hyperallergic Member, and stay safe out there. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | | |
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| | Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian sits down with curator Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher and critic Seph Rodney to discuss the unexpected intersections of art and athletics. |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school’s graduating students. MFA and BFA work is on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more |
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| | AT THE MUSEUM | | | The Manhattan museum’s Gilded Age mansion reopens next month, bringing its world-famous collection of works by the likes of Vermeer and Rembrandt back on public view. | Aaron Short
Curator Iris Moon knew she wanted to bring the voices of Asian-American women into Monstrous Beauty, and an audio guide provided the perfect platform. | Sarah Bochicchio
As the nation’s institutions are attacked from within, the Louis Kahn-designed museum marks its return with works by JMW Turner, Tracey Emin, and more. | Aaron Short
The assembling of these plaster casts of masterpieces more than a century ago must be understood as a work of art in its own right, a bizarre and beautiful triumph. | Ed Simon
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SPONSORED | | | | | The Center for Craft will award up to six $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic. Learn more |
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NEW YORK CITY PRINT WEEK | | | At once overwhelming and exhilarating, the IFPDA show in New York City is a trip through the gallerina looking-glass of prints from around the globe. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
At Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, independent shops, galleries, and high-profile publishers come together in shared passion for the craft and the connection it elicits. | Rhea Nayyar
We asked the experts what first-time collectors should keep in mind when shopping for lithographs, screenprints, and more. | Maya Pontone
From DIY risograph zines to masterfully crafted fine art prints, this non-exhaustive list is bound to meet the needs of almost any project. | Rhea Nayyar |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | The artist found a way to expand the parameters of observational painting, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we see. | John Yau
David Kennedy Cutler captures a time in which image has fully metastasized into reality — a mediated world where everything is always on and calling for you. | Lisa Yin Zhang
Native and Non-Native curators come together for this ambitious non-hierarchical exhibition tackling land and waterways, extra-human connection, and nonlinear time. | Lori Waxman
In A Head Full of Planets, Madalena Santos Reinbolt’s art celebrates her own identity and homeland, despite her marginalized status as a Black woman from rural Brazil. | Debra Brehmer
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | A new monograph brings the artist’s life into focus as she returns to the same subjects again and again: the women in her family, the British Museum, and the sea. | Eliza Goodpasture
In a new book, scholar Ruth E. Iskin emphasizes Cassatt as a distinctly transatlantic artist whose identification with the US and France were deeply entwined. | Sophia Stewart
Users are lampooning government officials’ flippant discussions of a deadly assault with no apparent knowledge of the journalist in the room. | Isa Farfan
This week: The forgotten Bloomsbury artist, Margo Jefferson’s incisive criticism, Elon Musk’s daughter speaks out, the benefits of thinking about aliens, mental health coffees, and more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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