| Good morning. 🌧️ In today's art crimes stories, the New York District Attorney’s office seizes allegedly looted antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the FBI investigates potentially fake Basquiats at the Orlando Museum of Art. The plunder and fakery just never end. On a lighter note, a recent discovery at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology validates the theory that some mammals can lay eggs. Also today, a special feature about Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts, reviews of Kevin Beasley, Siobhan Liddell, Marta Minujín, and more. — Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief Become a Member The Argentine artist’s early Informalist works, conjuring decay and degradation, are difficult to look at but deserving of our gaze. | Valentin Di Liscia SPONSORED Loghaven Is Accepting Applications for Stiped-Supported ResidenciesEmerging and established artists are encouraged to apply by July 15 for retreat-style residencies based in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2023 and 2024. Learn more. WHAT'S HAPPENING “Untitled (Self-Portrait or Crown Face II)” (1982), a work on view at the Orlando Museum of Art (used with permission from the Orlando Museum of Art) The FBI is investigating the authenticity of 25 Basquiat works on display at the Orlando Museum of Art. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office seized five allegedly looted antiquities worth over $3 million from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The International African American Museum will open its doors next January at the former site of Gadsden's Wharf in Charleston, SC. At the Cambridge Museum, recently rediscovered 150-year-old specimens were key to demonstrating that mammals could lay eggs. SPONSORED Overcome Zoom fatigue from hybrid work culture and connect with colleagues in real life by coming together for monthly Home Dinners. Learn more. REPRESENTATION IN NEW MEXICO The IAIA remains the only educational institution in the world dedicated to the study of contemporary Native American and Alaska Native arts. | Sarah Sao Mai Habib For New Mexico-based artist Frank Blazquez, portraiture was the way out of a crippling opiate addiction. | Samantha Anne Carrillo SPONSORED Organizers, artists, and land practitioners are holding public events at Iglesias Garden in a hub space supported by the Climate Justice Initiative, a project of Mural Arts Philadelphia. Learn more. Shows on view at this unique art space include Rirkrit Tiravanija: (who’s afraid of red, yellow, and green), a reinstallation of the US architecture exhibition at the 2021 Venice Biennale, and more. Learn more. LATEST REVIEWS While this exhibition exists in an austere white cube, far away from the heavy heat and kudzu of Virginia or Louisiana, the artist invokes the South through material and conceptual pull. | Noah Simblist Her latest exhibition is spare, strange, intentional in its moves, and economical in its means. | Cassie Packard IN MEMORIAM Ron Galella (1931-2022)
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