Good morning. First, let’s take a moment to honor two nonconformist women artists we lost recently. First, there's Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez, whose sculptural canvases evoke the rhythms of the natural world and human body. “This is an egg, it’s the world, and it’s a breast,” she once told an interviewer. Then there’s the incomparably kooky Anna Banana, christened such by (who else?) her elementary school students, who was a pioneer in mail art, performance, and alternative practice. Read their obituaries below. Grim’s the word. Or maybe it’s “Grimm.” The 18th-century Brothers Grimm somehow feature in two of our pieces today, in a explainer in our eclectic weekly round-up, Required Reading, and in a must-read review of a new book about race in the evolution of fairytales.
We’ve also got review of a sharply curated exhibition around energy justice at the Swiss Institute. And don’t miss the 264th edition of A View From the Easel — always a treat, but particularly so this week, as it features studios in sunny Los Angeles. Aaron Rose’s favorite material to work with, apparently, is something I’ve never in my life heard of — “One Shot Sign Painters Enamel.” God, I love artists.
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Characters in fairy tales “are white not by chance, but by design,” Kimberly J. Lau writes in a new book. | Tamar Boyadjian
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IN MEMORIAM
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The artist’s playful adoption of the banana motif transformed an everyday object into a vehicle for social interaction and anti-market exchange. | Liz Hirsch
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Her sculptural canvases or “erotic topologies” evoked the sinuous rhythms of the natural world and their echoes in the female body. | Valentina Di Liscia and Rhea Nayyar
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Energies at the Swiss Institute brings an archival and contemporary lens to questions of energy justice through a sharply curated artist cohort. | Yota Batsaki
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“The LA sunsets are always amazing colors that I love seeing next to my paintings.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
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This week: Dalit art and appropriation, Gisèle Pelicot and dignity for survivors, a Dakota recipe for holiday meals, the truth about Santa, and more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
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TRANSITIONS
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Nora Lawrence was appointed executive director of the Storm King Art Center.
Naomi Beckwith, chief curator and deputy director at the Guggenheim Museum, was selected to lead the next edition of Documenta. Read more at Hyperallergic.
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AWARDS & ACCOLADES
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Nicholas Galanin received the 2024 Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art, awarded by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Gridthiya Gaweewong received the 2025 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College. Amber Esseiva received the CCS Bard Alumni Award.
Melissa Joseph was awarded theBrooklyn Museum’s UOVO Prize.
Otobong Nkanga received the 2025 Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa’s Honorary Award for Artistic Excellence.
Ari Melenciano, Ariana Faye Allensworth, Azikiwe Mohammed, Amirtha Kidambi, and Finnegan Shannon were named the 2025 Working Artist Fellows at Pioneer Works.
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