Good morning! Today in the news: An artist paints portraits of American peace activists, 14 repatriated Yemeni artifacts are sent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art amid the ongoing civil war, and a community-curated blockchain art show that might surprise you comes to Queens.
Good morning! Today in the news: An artist paints portraits of American peace activists, 14 repatriated Yemeni artifacts are sent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art amid the ongoing civil war, and a community-curated blockchain art show that might surprise you comes to Queens. Also today, Senior Editor Hakim Bishara muses on a recent encounter with the Cubist sculptures created by artist Lee Bul for The Met’s facade commission. Elsewhere in Manhattan, Natalie Weiss visits an exhibition of Dorothea Tanning's otherworldly collages of tissue, ink, and fabric scraps, largely assembled toward the end of her career. |
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Read on for more essential stories, including but not limited to Moo Deng’s art historical predecessors — the hippos who waddled so she could zoom. And we’re excited to invite you to our 15th-anniversary celebration on October 9 at Brooklyn’s Red Pavilion. Grab your tickets to a night of feasting, festivities, drag performances, and more. We hope to see you there! |
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| | | Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections. | Hakim Bishara |
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LATEST IN ART | | | | The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History features the work of Baldwin-obsessed artist Sabrina Nelson on the centennial of the famed author’s birth. | Sarah Rose Sharp |
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| | | Tanning’s practice shows that there is always another door to open, a new world to explore, and that art offers us another possible existence. | Natalie Weis |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | “It’s about people with the courage and perseverance to insist that politicians and media tell the truth,” the artist told Hyperallergic. | Maya Pontone |
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| | | | Just as memes of the viral hippo range from sweet to spooky, art history is rich with terrifying, adorable, and bizarre depictions of the amphibious creatures. | Isabella Segalovich |
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IN MEMORIAM | Bill Beckley (1946–2024)
Conceptual artist and art writer|Counterpunch
Philomene Bennett (1935–2024)
Kansas City painter, ceramicist, and printmaker | KCUR
Andrew Hay (1944–2024)
Scottish artist who famously depicted the 1984 miners’ strikes | Scotsman
Frederic Jameson (1934–2024)
Scholar of literature, architecture, film, and history | New York Times
Hanif Kureshi (1982–2024)
Indian artist who staged public art interventions | Hindu
Terence Lane (1946–2024)
Curator at the National Gallery of Victoria | Sydney Morning Herald
James Magee (1946–2024)
Artist known for outdoor installation in Chihuahuan Desert | El Paso Matters
Ivan Vukadinov (1932–2024)
Bulgarian encaustic painter | Bulgarian News Agency |
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