This week: The little-known story of an abandoned Richard Serra sculpture that once stood tall in the center of Paris, outrage over imprudent art in Italy, and urgent questions about Asian-American identity.
Many of you also loved reading Melissa Holbrook Pierson’s review of the late art critic John Berger’s posthumous book about losing his eyesight to cataracts and how the experience revealed new ways of seeing to him.
I recommend you also check out our guide to graphic novels to read this spring, including suggestions from several prominent comics artists. That’s in addition to art shows to see in New York City this month and our latest watchlist of insightful and off-beat video essays.
Finally, are you prepared for the North American solar eclipse on April 8? Read below about an app that can help you make the best of this celestial phenomenon. In the meantime, have a great weekend. | — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
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| | How did the artist’s massive “Clara-Clara” (1983) end up in the backyard of a former water treatment facility on the city’s outskirts? | Michelle Young |
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SPONSORED | | | Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now highlights 32 contemporary artists who explore how cultural heritage shapes identity. | Learn more |
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| | | This month: Audrey Flack, Sonya Clark, Raven Chacon, Mike Olin, and more. | Hrag Vartanian, John Yau, AX Mina, and Natalie Haddad |
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| | For Dine, physical labor and art-making are interchangeable: “When you paint every day, all year long, then the subject is essentially the act of working.” | John Yau |
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| | While his paintings follow the rules of linear perspectives, Niles uses the materiality of the paint itself to pull viewers into the compositions. | Seph Rodney |
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| | | A suite of paintings by Italian Baroque master Guercino at England’s Waddesdon Manor seems to herald the coming of Christ and a modern future. | Michael Glover |
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| | The artist evokes a strong religious sensibility in his hybrid sculptures tempered by a welcome sense of humor. | Anna Souter |
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| | Scratching at the Moon hones in on a loose network of artists that have known each other for decades in Los Angeles. | Alex Paik |
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| | | A partnership between the museum and Mubi will make a selection of films in this year’s biennial available to watch online from the US, UK, and Canada starting April 12. | Maya Pontone |
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| | This April: video essays on Palestine, AI, Nathan Fielder, and more. | Dan Schindel |
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| | | Get your comic fix with moving, witty, poignant books by Ai Weiwei, Tessa Hulls, Julia Wertz, Mattie Lubchansky, and more. | Hrag Vartanian, Hakim Bishara, Lisa Yin Zhang, Nathan Gelgud, CM Campbell, Noah Fischer, Jesse Lambert, and Lauren Purje |
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| | After being afflicted with cataracts, the late critic and novelist reflected on the mechanics of sight. | Melissa Holbrook Pierson |
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| | | This week, artists who have all worked in their studios for over a decade revel in the solitude it affords them on one hand, crave the company of fellow artists on the other, and use a sand clock to mark the passage of time.
Want to take part? Check out our new submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio. |
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| | | Self-portraits by Van Gogh, Francis Bacon, and more explore not just how these artists saw the world but also what “selfie” culture says about us. | Sarah Rose Sharp |
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| | Revel Hall was a meditation on empty, dilapidated properties in a city plagued by a housing crisis. | Angella d'Avignon |
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| | Artist Cassils led “Etched in Light,” a participatory visual art and sonic performance in Washington, DC this weekend. | Zoe Dutton |
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| | This week, women of color in architecture, shady government comic books, a beloved cherry blossom tree’s last bloom, and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin and Elaine Velie |
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| | Three of Hyperallergic’s writers talk about the journeys that took them from writing blog posts to publishing full-length books on the politics of memes, the battles over America’s monuments, and forgotten World War II heroes. |
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| | Residencies, grants, open calls, and jobs from Davidson College, the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. |
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