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Good morning. ☀️ Today, Ai Weiwei pens his memoirs, artists in New Mexico are experimenting with NFTs, and a new book takes readers inside artists’ kitchens.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

New Mexico Artists Explore Creativity and Activism Through NFTs

Cryptoart is being generated by artists looking for something that the conventional art world can’t, or won’t, offer them. | Nancy Zastudil

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Plans for the Charles Millard Pratt residence in Ojai, California (1909) (from the Greene & Greene Archives, courtesy The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens)

An important "Arts and Crafts" architectural archive has been gifted to the Huntington Library, allowing the institution to digitize the archive and make it searchable online.

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CalArts Cultivates an Environment of Artistic Experimentation and Free Creative Exploration

The institute awarded more than $25.7 million in scholarships to 95% of degree-seeking students this past academic year. Learn more.

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Reimagining the Met Museum’s Period Room Through the Lens of Afrofuturism

From Erykah Badu to Elizabeth Cattlett, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room integrates works by Black creators from the past to the present. | Valentina Di Liscia

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Nigerian Artist Ken Nwadiogbu Creates NFTs for Voice

As part of his Voice NFT Residency, the multidisciplinary artist and six collaborators explore identity, migration, and other pressing issues. Learn more.

Accessibility Takes Center Stage in a Fashion Show

Mode Brut at the Museum of Craft and Design wants to change people’s perceptions of what fashion can be. | Emily Wilson

Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibition Features Monumental New Mural by Derrick Adams

The artist dedicates this site-specific installation to “the perseverance of Black Americans in their pursuit of happiness.” Learn more.

Leah Guadagnoli's Joyous Kitsch

The works in Love Lies Bleeding were “made in the process of loss, heartache, and recovery,” but nowhere is there a dour note. | Alex Wexelman

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Dawn DeDeaux Connects Social Justice and Environmentalism in a Retrospective at the New Orleans Museum of Art

In a retrospective on view at NOMA, Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds demonstrates the artist’s longstanding concern with the most pressing issues of our time. Learn more.

Renée Stout is a Do-It-Yourself Conjurer

Her witchery is mischievous, aiming to trick the beholder into a quite fragile enchantment. | Seph Rodney

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Tyler School of Art and Architecture Opens Fall 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

In Philadelphia, a series of solo shows delves into the interdisciplinary practices of graduates whose work explores identity, familial bonds, political constructs, and nature’s fragility. Learn more.

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Ai Weiwei Plumbs His Chaotic Childhood in New Memoir

Ai Weiwei’s childhood recollections are vividly violent. | Kealey Boyd

Reflecting on the Glamorous, Political, and Artistic Covers of Ebony Magazine

The pages of the popular magazine not only instilled pride in Black communities, but also documented and contextualized their realities. | Mia Imani Harrison

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Bigger Field, Better Questions: What Do Pots Want?*

Warren Wilson College’s low-residency MA in Critical Craft Studies produces researchers who turn the mic in a new direction. Learn more.

What Artists Cook Up in Their Kitchens

It turns out that making a dish and making a work of art have a fair amount in common. | Lauren Moya Ford

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