| Good morning. 🌤️ Today, our July list of recommended art shows in New York City is here, the Met Museum increases its admission fee (up to $30 per ticket!), artists continue the fight for reproductive rights, Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves start a metaverse foundation, and much more. Also worth your attention today is cultural critic Mark Dery's essay on the life and art career of Jean-Michel Basquiat on the occasion of the exhibition King Pleasure. — Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief Become a Member Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Lee Lozano, Cindy Sherman, Tokuko Ushioda, Anas Albraehe, and more. | Billy Anania SPONSORED International audiences have free access to the media collections of MMCA Korea, Sharjah Art Foundation, and ArkDes through this subscription-based art streaming platform. Learn more. THE LATEST Graphic design by Nina Yagual (image courtesy the artist and the Center for Cultural Power) Arts workers and reproductive rights organizations collaborate on educational resources for accessing safe abortion procedures. The Met Museum is raising its general admission fee to $30 starting this Friday, July 1. Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant launch the Futureverse Foundation, a grantmaking organization aiming to “help keep the metaverse widely accessible.” SPONSORED A journey spanning three continents over 1,500 years comes to the National Mall in Washington, DC. On view at the Smithsonian’s NMAA through September 18. Learn more. REMEMBERING PIVOTAL ARTISTS The art establishment was never quite sure what to do with a self-taught artist like Basquiat, who owed as much to bebop and William S. Burroughs’s cut-up technique as he did to African influences. | Mark Dery Stanton, who died of AIDS complications in 1984, left behind an engaging body of work, a moving tribute to a bygone generation of creative minds. | Francesco Dama In every role she held, Vendryes advocated for marginalized people and celebrated the cultural contributions of the Black and queer communities. | Souleo LATEST REVIEWS Kadish’s fossil-like heads, forms, and figures remind us that every civilization, including our own, eventually collapses. | Tim Keane Baz Luhrmann’s film Elvis and Danny Boyle’s miniseries Pistol are both overly fixated on the influence their respective musicians’ managers had on them. | Jake Cole IN MEMORIAM Sam Gilliam (1933-2022)
Acclaimed abstract artist | Hyperallergic Margaret Keane (1927-2022)
“Big Eyes” painter | Guardian Ken Knowlton (1931-2022)
Pioneer of computer art | New York Times James Rado (1932-2022)
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