In a sweeping executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, Trump aims to undo decades of progress against bigotry and spews dangerous falsehoods about race as a “biological reality.”
| Good morning. In a sweeping executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, Trump aims to undo decades of progress against bigotry and spews dangerous falsehoods about race as a “biological reality.” The chilling text echoes the language of pseudoscientific racism and threatens to defund Smithsonian museums that acknowledge our country’s violent histories. Read more below. Fortunately, at the community level, artists are defiantly pushing back against these distortions. In her riveting dispatch from the International Fine Print Dealers Association fair in New York City, Associate Editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin finds odes to the medium's activist history. At the inaugural edition of the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar admired art supporting trans rights and condemning Trump's immigration crackdown. And if you haven’t had enough of prints just yet, check out Staff Writer Maya Pontone’s guide to shopping the elusive medium. Also today, don’t miss Matt Stromberg’s list of art shows to see in LA in April, Aditya Iyer on the art of the Mughal empire at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and more. — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | | |
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| | Among other disturbing and demonstrably false distortions, the mandate suggests that race is a “biological reality” — a tenet of racist pseudoscientific beliefs. | Valentina Di Liscia and Maya Pontone |
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NYC PRINT FAIRS | | | At Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, independent shops, galleries, and high-profile publishers come together in shared passion for the craft and the connection it elicits. | Rhea Nayyar |
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| | | At once overwhelming and exhilarating, the IFPDA show in New York City is a trip through the gallerina looking-glass of prints from around the globe. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Pratt Fine Arts is delighted to invite visitors to a two-part show curated by Dejá Belardo at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Learn more |
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| | We asked the experts what first-time collectors should keep in mind when shopping for lithographs, screenprints, and more. | Maya Pontone |
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| LATEST REVIEWS | | | Through abstraction and nonlinearity, Holman invests in cinematic practices that unseat “spectacle” as the prominent mode of Black representation. | Alexandra M. Thomas |
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| | | An exhibition showcases the sophisticated cultural language developed in the Indian subcontinent from around 1560 to 1660 across the reign of three emperors. | Aditya Iyer |
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| MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | Madam X’s spiritual diagrams, Umar Rashid curates Robert Colescott, Carole Caroompas’s anti-hero journey, 50 years of L.A. Louver, and more. | Matt Stromberg |
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| | | The museum’s longtime prints and drawings curator will take over from Glenn Lowry, whose tenure was marked by controversy. | Valentina Di Liscia |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | Debord’s best-known work is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer culture. | Tiernan Morgan and Lauren Purje |
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MEMBER COMMENT | | mstamarindball on “The Shapeshifting Paintings of Kelly Sinnapah Mary” | | Indo-Caribbean identity is not often acknowledged or understood, much less placed in the foreground and celebrated, and I applaud this review for touching on that reality. Sinnapah Mary’s art speaks to my own Indo-Caribbean roots and it’s good to have her works written about with that lens firmly in place, particularly when it comes to the (often lost or obscured) experiences and testimonies of our grandmothers and other female ancestors. |
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