Good morning! The Venn Diagram showing fans of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and of author Jane Austen is likely close to a circle. But the specter of colonialism looms large in both of their work, even if it isn’t made explicit. In a thought-provoking review today, critic Alexandra Thomas offers analysis on this very subject through two shows dedicated to the 19th-century British artists at the Morgan Library.
Meanwhile, Staff Writer Maya Pontone reports on the Centre Pompidou’s cancellation of an exhibition of work by Caribbean artists, garnering backlash and calls for an explanation from the French institution.
More food for thought below, including treats in our reviews section: Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang visits a show at the legendary Art Students’ League in Midtown, and Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad writes movingly about the HIV/AIDS activism and work of late trans artist Chloe Dzubilo. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | | |
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 | | It is crucial to grapple with the colonial structures that helped sustain the lives and work of the two 19th-century contemporaries, both celebrated as feminist heroines. | Alexandra M. Thomas |
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SPONSORED |  | | Tamarind Institute and Frederick Hammersley Artist Residency recipient Raven Chacon present Tiguex, from the Tiwa word meaning “the valley between Sandia and Isleta pueblos.” This six-color lithograph is at once a map and score of the Pulitzer Prize-winning sound artist’s upcoming city-wide performance in Albuquerque on September 27. Learn more |
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IN THE NEWS |  | Nearly 150 artists, curators, and other cultural figures signed an open letter denouncing the Centre Pompidou-Metz’s decision to abruptly call off an exhibition centering on contemporary Franco-Creole, Caribbean French, and Guyanese art. |
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| ON VIEW IN NEW YORK |  | | As an HIV-positive trans woman and advocate, Dzubilo faced challenges that should have been history by the early 2000s, yet persist today. | Natalie Haddad |
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|  | | A show at the Art Students League leans on the names of its alumni and the aura of its environs, but that’s enough. | Lisa Yin Zhang |
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 | | From Julia Margaret Cameron to Chloe Dzubilo, to 150 years of the Art Students League of New York, “visionary” is a theme in the shows below. | Natalie Haddad, Lisa Yin Zhang, and Alexandra M. Thomas |
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