| Good morning. 🌧️ Today, Starbucks workers stage a protest at MoMA, Iraq sentences a British geologist to 15 years in prison, a tribute to trailblazing artist Paula Rego, who died yesterday at age 87, reviews of Robert Rauschenberg, Hanne Darboven, Laurie Parsons, and more. Also, I highly recommend reading Leeanna T. Torres's personal essay about seeing her Nuevomexicano family's story featured in an exhibition at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico. — Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief Become a Member We spoke with three public school art teachers from the Movement of Rank-and-File Educators (MORE) on their efforts to reform New York's largest teachers' union. | Billy Anania SPONSORED WHAT'S HAPPENING Outside MoMA, union members protested while the museum honored Mellody Hobson for her philanthropy. (all photos Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic) Pro-union protesters picket MoMA's annual “Party in the Garden” gala honoring Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson for her philanthropy. Artist Paula Rego, whose figurative art focalized both the power and suffering of women, dies at 87. Retired British geologist Jim Fitton gets a 15-year sentence after Baghdad airport authorities find pottery shards from an Iraqi site in his luggage. SPONSORED Signed copies of Sauve qui peut ! (Run for your life), a new collection of comics by R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Sophie Crumb, have just launched exclusively on Platform. The legendary comic art family collaborated on new works tackling contemporary anxieties. Only 50 copies available, limit 2 per customer. Get yours now. NEWLY DISCOVERED HISTORIES Depicting the busts of Gabriel and the Virgin, “The Annunciation” (1677) may be the ultimate lost artwork, or "sleeper." | Olivia McEwan Strolling through the Millicent Rogers Museum’s exhibition Following the Manito Trail, seeing my own family name displayed on the wall was complex and strange, to say the least. | Leeanna t. Torres SPONSORED This year’s winner, Dr. Tiffany E. Barber, will present her paper, “Black Women’s Visual Alterity,” at an in-person prize ceremony in Washington, DC, on Friday, September 9. Learn more. LATEST REVIEWS Just as LeWitt used minimalism to distill geometric forms, Darboven used it to expose the raw structure of time. | Renée Reizman Rauschenberg gave artists an enormous sense of freedom and permission to create anything they could dream of, so long as they were earnest in their ideas and execution. | Catherine Yang SPONSORED This exhibition explores the work and short-but-impactful life of the groundbreaking ceramic artist. Now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Learn more. ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC An artist book published by curator Bob Nicklas seeks to introduce a new generation to the artist, who abandoned her art career 30 years ago to practice social work. | Louis Bury Made over the course of 30 years by special effects legend Phil Tippett, this stop-motion animated epic is a feast of creatively horrifying imagery. | Dan Schindel IN MEMORIAM Martha Myers (1925-2022)
Dancer and dance educator | NYT Paul Gunther (1956-2022)
Leader in New York arts and architecture preservation | NYT Paula Rego (1935-2022)
Portuguese-British artist | Guardian Jacques Villeglé (1926-2022)
French artist and poster designer | Artnews MOST POPULAR FROM THE ARCHIVE Hundreds of photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries offer a glimpse at the life of gay men during a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere. | Hrag Vartanian | 