Patrick Angus’s Honest Images of Gay Life

Good morning. 🌨️🌧️ Today, alumni and students are calling for Dartmouth college to distance itself fr

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Good morning. 🌨️🌧️ Today, alumni and students are calling for Dartmouth college to distance itself from Leon Black, the Getty’s look at Palmyra ignores the modern city, and “Starry Night” by Vincent van LEGOgh.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Patrick Angus’s Honest Images of Gay Life With their Fauvist hues and Pop-inflected renderings, Angus’s drawings and paintings, made amid the AIDS crisis, intrinsically queer the Western canon. Cassie Packard

SPONSORED SCAD deFINE ART’s Virtual Events Complement Exhibitions in Atlanta and Savannah From February 23 to 25, enjoy online arts programming like a keynote lecture by honoree Sanford Biggers, a conversation between Amy Sedaris and Marcel Dzama, and more.

What’s HappeningAlumni and students are calling for Dartmouth to rename the Black Family Visual Arts Center following revelations of Leon Black’s financial ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. To mark the historic landing of NASA’s Perseverance Rover, London’s Natural History Museum has unveiled an enormous replica of Mars it its main hall and will be assisting in research of the planet’s potential for past life.

Build Starry Night Entirely Out of LEGOgh Blocks The 1,552-piece set includes a miniature Vincent van Gogh figurine. Sarah Rose Sharp

SPONSORED Explore the Creative Potential of Industrial Materials and Techniques at the Arts/Industry Residency The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is accepting applications for the 2022 residency program through March 14.

The Getty Revisits Ancient Palmyra, but the Modern City Is Mostly Invisible Life in Palmyra did not stop in the third century but has gone on more or less continuously at the site for the 1,700 years since. Michael Press

“Looking for Hope and Clinging to Hope”: Short Films for Our Times The Asian Art Museum shares with Hyperallergic some of the short films featured in its forthcoming exhibition “After Hope: Videos of Resistance.” Emily Wilson

SPONSORED Vermont College of Fine Arts Honors Cheryl D. Miller, Tireless Advocate for Black Graphic Designers VCFA will confer an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters to the award-winning designer and businesswoman in a live-streamed public ceremony on February 16 at 6:30pm EST.

From High Scores to Classic Donkey Kong, these Docs Take On Video Games From the creative process behind indie games to the surprisingly compelling fights for world-record scores, here are some great films to stream about gaming. Dan Schindel

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