Good meowning! Cat people who love Leonora Carrington, today is for you. Read more below about the beguiling Surrealist artist’s six-foot-tall cat woman sculpture, slated to make its first appearance at auction in 30 years this month.
With the US election nearly upon us, artists are busy at work. Carrie Mae Weems ran an ad starring Kamala Harris based on her seminal The Kitchen Table series. An effigy of the ever-odious Donald Trump making a crude gesture toward a sculpture of a nude woman popped up in Philly. Curiouser and curiouser.
But today’s must-read is Palestinian-American textile scholar Wafa Ghnaim’s essay on encountering a thobe from Gaza during a visit to the Brooklyn Museum on October 7, 2023. A tatreez artist herself, Ghnaim immediately recognized the dress’s origin and noticed the wall label’s erasure of its Palestinian roots. Her beautiful piece explains why she decided to rewrite it.
We also bring you 10 shows to catch in New York this month, erotic puppet theater, Diana Weymar’s abortion embroidery presented in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and more in this edition. Enjoy, and take care today.
— Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor
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On a visit to the Brooklyn Museum on October 7, 2023, I felt proud to see a Palestinian thobe like the ones I study. But then I saw the wall label. | Wafa Ghnaim
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Featuring 32 films from 25 nations, this online showcase by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian starts streaming on November 22. Learn more
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IN THE NEWS
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ART IN NEW YORK
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Alvin Ailey, Jesse Krimes, Tina Girouard, Aboriginal bark painting, and more. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, Valentina Di Liscia, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Lisa Yin Zhang, Isabella Segalovich and Louis Bury
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Full funding is available for MFA students; MS students have scholarship and assistantship opportunities. The priority deadline for funding is January 15, 2025. Learn more
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That Paradise Place explores the romantic lives and sexual fantasies of artists with disabilities through song and puppetry. | Maya Pontone
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TEXTILE ART
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Diana Weymar’s embroidered textiles amplify the voices of courageous women in post-Roe v. Wade America. | Katha Pollitt and Diana Weymar
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As a new book shows, the school’s teachings continue to influence creative practices. | Julie Schneider
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Residencies, grants, open calls, and jobs from RISD, Ucross, the University of Michigan, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
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