NYC Art Teachers Feel the Squeeze

July 6, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, our staff reporter Elaine Velie looks into how NYC Mayor Eric Adams's education budget cuts are affecting the work of art teachers, police officials in Virginia admit to tear-gassing peaceful protesters at a confederate memorial, and David Lynch’s Lost Highway returns to theaters with 4K restoration.

There's more: An artist revives the lost tradition of Jewish papercuts; a show about France's pioneering women artists; studio visits in Karachi, Pakistan, and more.

Also, our monthly Opportunities column is out with grants, open calls, residencies, fellowships, and more. Who knows, it might take your life in a totally new direction.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief

The Pioneering Feminists of French Art

Pioneers at Paris’s Musée du Luxembourg places a particular emphasis on women artists who challenged and subverted conventional norms of gender presentation, sexuality, motherhood, and race. | Anna Souter

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Corcoran Celebrates Black Fatherhood in New Photojournalism Exhibition

Part of a media project by Dr. Imani M. Cheers, Framing Fatherhood is on view at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in DC through July 31. Learn more.

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Students in an art class at MS 821 Sunset Park Prep in Brooklyn (photo by and courtesy Olivia Swisher)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams slashes school funding by over $200 million, jeopardizing art departments across the city.

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Embark on an Art Adventure at Seattle Art Fair

This destination for modern and contemporary art showcases the vibrant arts community of the Pacific Northwest alongside galleries from around the world, open July 21 through 24. Learn more.

WORKING WITH PAPER

Reviving the Lost Craft of Jewish Papercuts

Anna Kronick is one of very few Judaic paper cutters practicing today, with a highly contemporary body of work that breathes new life into the sacred tradition. | Isa Segalovich

Tanoa Sasraku’s Enigmatic "Earth Photos"

In finding new ways to read and map landscapes, Tanoa Sasraku disrupts our expectations of the rural and opens up latent memories, mythologies, and energies. | Anna Souter

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Inside the Wondrous Studios of Three Pakistani Artists

Contemporary artist studios in Karachi prioritize pragmatism; many resist a traditional understanding of spaces with singular purposes. | Nageen Shaikh

How David Lynch Found His Late Style in Lost Highway

A 4K restoration of the film offers a new chance to untangle its uneasily ambiguous, highly bifurcated plot. | Cole Kronman

Opportunities in July 2022

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