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September 21, 2022 • View in browserGood morning. 🌤️ It's an age-old question: How on earth did the ancient Egyptians transport those massive bricks of the Giza pyramids? Now, scientists might finally have the answer, and it has to do with Africa's longest river, the mighty Nile. Read more about that in our report. Another question: Many art galleries are now incorporating furniture into exhibitions. Should we be worried about that? Is it a welcome embrace of homeyness or another sign of the over-commodification of art? Our guest contributor Phin Jennings has some thoughts on that. Also today, reviews of Céline Condorelli, José María Cabral’s new film Parsley, the fight against book bans in the US, and a lot more. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor Artist Slammed for Matching Instagram Photos to Open-Camera FootageCritics of the project say artist Dries Depoorter is engaging dangerously with surveillance culture. | Rhea Nayyar SPONSORED Camille Hoffman Re-Contextualizes Romantic Landscapes in Motherlands at form & conceptThis Santa Fe exhibition examines methods of making and maintaining a home in liminal spaces constructed by colonialism through painting and installation. Learn more. WHAT'S HAPPENING Core samples taken from the surrounding floodplain indicate that a lost branch of the Nile once flowed through this region. (image via Wikimedia Commons) Researchers hypothesize that a now-dried-up branch of the Nile helped transfer materials in the building of the pyramids at Giza. The Getty Foundation announces a $3.1 million grant to preserve works created by Black modern architects. Anti-Indigenous slurs are removed from the names of over 650 federal geographic sites across the United States. New York Public Library spotlights Toni Morrison for Banned Books Week, offering Beloved and The Bluest Eye for unlimited checkouts through October 31. SPONSORED Rebecca Ward: distance to venus Opens at SITE Santa FeBrooklyn-based artist Rebecca Ward explores the landscape of queer motherhood in a new solo exhibition at New Mexico’s SITE Santa Fe. Learn more. LATEST IN ART The Hidden Labor of ExhibitionsCondorelli considers how our modes of seeing and reproducing images and environments might develop, questioning how we see — and how we might see differently. | Anna Souter SPONSORED ICA Philadelphia Presents First Major US Show on Sissel Tolaas, Smell Researcher and ArtistUsing the building’s architecture to create an olfactory landscape, Tolaas explores the concept of experience, the unknown, and even the (un)pleasantly familiar. Learn more. How Artists in the Southwest are Drawing Attention to Wildfires“Artists can provide visual stories as points of entry into conversations about the health of forests, and the destructive and healing aspects of fire,” says Saskia Jordá. | Lynn Trimble MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC Parsley Brings a Haitian-Dominican Massacre to LightDirector José María Cabral’s intention to bring a horrific history front and center is much needed for a massacre that remains a footnote in Dominican society. | Michael Piantini SPONSORED The Bennett Prize’s Call for Entries Is Now Open to Women Figurative Realist PaintersArtists have until October 7 to enter to win $50,000 and a traveling solo exhibition of their work. Learn more. Should We Be Uncomfortable With Furniture at Art Galleries?At first, seeing exhibitions incorporating home furnishings worried me, thinking they turn galleries into shops for luxury goods. But this concern is misguided. | Phin Jennings IN OUR STORE Boogie-Woogie SocksStep into a work of art with these seamless, combed cotton socks featuring “Broadway Boogie-Woogie” by Piet Mondrian. Support Hyperallergic's independent journalismBecome a member today to help keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. Become a MemberMOST POPULAR These Photographs Were Made in ProtestBushwick Open Studios Returned, But the Artists Didn’t KnowRumors About Death of the Bay Area Art Scene Are Greatly ExaggeratedPsychiatrists in Brussels Can Now “Prescribe” Museum Visits to PatientsArtist Says High Line Hotel Staffers “Barged” Into Room and Racially Profiled Him
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