Good morning. The Category 4 hurricane that hit the Gulf Coast and plowed its way inland has killed dozens of people, devastated homes and infrastructure, and left hundreds missing.
Good morning. The Category 4 hurricane that hit the Gulf Coast and plowed its way inland has killed dozens of people, devastated homes and infrastructure, and left hundreds missing. Staff Reporter Rhea Nayyar speaks to artists and organizations in the particularly hard-hit city of Asheville in North Carolina, where Helene tore through the River Arts District. “Recovery is going to take years,” said Ruby Lopez Harper, executive director of the Craft Emergency Relief Fund. Also today, a catalog for Elizabeth Catlett’s Brooklyn Museum show is a “gripping critical overview” of the revolutionary artist's contributions, writes art historian Aly Thomas, and Bushwick Open Studios is all grown up — read contributor Aaron Short’s observations from the annual event’s 18th edition this past weekend. Our monthly Opportunities roundup, this year’s MacArthur Fellowship recipients, and much more below. — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | |
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| | | The city and its artists were hard-hit by the storm that tore a deadly path of destruction from Florida through inland Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee. | Rhea Nayyar |
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SPONSORED | | | | Exploring the history and creative uses of digital imaging from the 1960s to the present, this groundbreaking exhibition is on view in Riverside, California. Learn more |
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LATEST REVIEWS | | | | In the catalog for her Brooklyn Museum show, scholars explore how the Black revolutionary artist lived out her beliefs after her exile from the United States. | Alexandra M. Thomas |
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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 experience of being Black in America transcends the addiction, police brutality, lynchings, loss of family, and misogynoir that the artist depicts. | Jen Torwudzo-Stroh |
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| | | | One of the inventors of modern collage, Höch’s sociopolitical imagery skewered the politicians and culture of early and mid-20th-century Germany. | Andrea Scrima |
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| | | | Made by a team of Palestinian and Israeli activists, this film implores us to feel the effects of the war. | Greta Rainbow |
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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | The annual event celebrated its 18th edition this weekend, with artists in good spirits despite rain and a subway line that didn’t run into Manhattan. | Aaron Short |
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| | | | Residencies, grants, open calls, and jobs from Amherst College, apexart, Tamarind Institute, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. |
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