| Good morning. Today, we pay homage to the late Fred Eversley, a Light and Space sculptor who made a remarkable impact on fellow artists in Los Angeles. The sprawling city is also at the center of a book about the small but mighty museums and cultural institutions that keep the art ecosystem alive, from the mobile African American Miniature Museum to the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Read on for an update on disgraced art advisor Lisa Schiff and a win for artistic freedom in Miami Beach, whose mayor finally dropped a motion to defund an independent cinema for screening the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. Plus, Aida Amoako on a Noah Davis retrospective, revelations about the women who crafted illuminated manuscripts in Medieval Europe, and more. And if you’re in New York next week, Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian will be on a panel to discuss Eunsong Kim’s book The Politics of Collecting, also the subject of a Hyperallergic Podcast episode last fall, at the CUNY Graduate Center at 5pm on Monday. Learn more and register to attend here! — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | | |
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 | | With a fair dose of whimsy, Also on View draws attention to museums off the beaten track, centering the region’s rich diasporic fabric and cultural niches. | Matt Stromberg |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | Organized by filmmaker, artist, and curator Katherine Simóne Reynolds, the Denver show is a poetic meditation on love, grief, and healing. Learn more |
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IN THE NEWS |  | -
Fred Eversley, who fused art and science to create captivating parabolic sculptures, has died at the age of 83.
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According to a new study, women contributed more extensively to Medieval manuscript production than previously believed. -
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner withdrew his proposal to defund and evict O Cinema for refusing to cancel screenings of No Other Land (2024). -
New York City art advisor Lisa Schiff has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for defrauding more than a dozen clients.
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LATEST REVIEWS |  | | Davis portrayed scenes in which Black people could truly recognize themselves, eschewing stereotypical depictions and imbuing his subjects with a sense of the surreal. | Aida Amoako |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | The MFA Art Practice program at SVA redefines artmaking through a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach that welcomes non-traditional applicants. Learn more |
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 | | A show of 10 artists working from the 1910s to ’70s demonstrates that the movement was much more diverse than its most notable names suggest. | Ela Bittencourt |
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|  | | The increasingly blurred boundaries between labor and domesticity are the subject of an exhibition of 24 artists who graduated from the program last year. | Claudia Ross |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE |  | | The book Botanical Shakespeare, by historian Gerit Quealy with illustrations by Sumié Hasegawa-Collins, compiles the roughly 175 mentions of plants in Shakespeare’s plays. | Allison Meier |
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IM MEMORIAM | | Fred Eversley (1941–2025)
Light and Space sculptor | Hyperallergic Lajuana Lampkins (1958–2024)
Chicago street artist | Block Club Chicago Danilo Domínguez (“Mariloly”) (1952–2025)
Cuban artist, comedian, and drag queen | Cuba en Miami Sylvia Seventy (1947–2025)
Textile artist | Press Democrat Mac Whitney (1936–2025)
Abstract metal sculptor | Glasstire |
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