This was a week of reality checks for the 1%.
This was a week of reality checks for the 1%. On Tuesday, Rhea Nayyar reported on the “Celebrity Block List,” an online campaign to boycott social media of celebrities who celebrated the excess of the Met Gala as Israel ramped up its attacks. As Nayyar reminds us, “The Block Party is more than just tuning out distractions — it has the power to impact the algorithm.” On the other side of the pond, artist Jonathan Yeo drew attention for his portrait of King Charles in a sea of red paint. Memes range from comparing the portrait to a pizza with a face to likening it to the infamous 1993 “Tampongate.” Either way, this painting may not be bound for the National Portrait Gallery. In other news, a rendering of a pro-Palestine artwork was removed from Burning Man’s website while Maurizio Cattelan was accused (again) of plagiarizing another artist’s work. Don’t miss John Yau’s illuminating story on the country’s only student-acquired university art collection. And make sure to read Maya Pontone’s thoughtful piece on artists commemorating the Nakba through an ancient embroidery practice. Happy weekend reading! — Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor | |
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| | | We owe the stories of Louise Nevelson, Tamara de Lempicka, and Anna Walinska to those behind the scenes working to preserve them. | Hall W. Rockefeller |
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SHOWS ON OUR RADAR | | | | Way’s drawings are not messages to be decoded but instead are renderings of our yearning to comprehend. | Albert Mobilio
The Met show pays tribute to the designs and technical innovations of long-ago weavers and the 20th-century artists who took inspiration from them. | Julie Schneider
Combining the provocative spirit of internet trolling, clickbait scamming, and MTV’s Punk’d, the collective satirizes consumerism while making bank. | Sigourney Schultz |
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| | | | The beautiful and the bad — paintings and otherwise — make an impression in galleries this month. | Hrag Vartanian, Daniel Larking, and Ela Bittencourt |
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LATEST FEATURES | | | | An online archive of digitized patterns features more than 1,000 motifs pertaining to the traditional embroidery art form. | Maya Pontone
Eager for interpersonal exchange and viewer participation, the Detroit-based artist invites us into their candid visualizations of ancestral and personal history. | Sarah Rose Sharp
Wake Forest University is the only American institution of higher education to establish a collection of student-acquired art. | John Yau |
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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | Legacy Russell’s Black Meme argues that owning, replicating, and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination. | Eileen Isagon Skyers
Hidden in the bowels of the London Library, a 19th-century pamphlet contains its founder’s most bigoted views. | Michael Glover
Albini may be best known for his work on Nirvana’s In Utero, but it was his own bands, Big Black and Shellac, that made him a badass. | Natalie Haddad
“I like to work in the afternoon and evening when the sun is crescendoing to absorb the beauty of the golden hour.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
This week, remembering writer Alice Munro, double standards for student protesters, the cinematic history of cigarettes, BBC’s iconic jingle, and more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin and Elaine Velie |
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