Weekend: Andy Warhol, Frank Jones, Dan Douke, Hayley Williams, and more

We’re coming off a week indelibly marked, on one side of the class divide, by a shambling TV parade o

Aug 29, 2020 • View in browser

We’re coming off a week indelibly marked, on one side of the class divide, by a shambling TV parade of lunatics, liars, zealots, schemers, enablers, hypocrites, toadies, and dupes, and on the other, by the police shooting of another unarmed Black man in the back, followed by a night of white supremacist mayhem and murder. And still the pandemic grinds on.Two of art’s Hydra-heads, activism and solace, have been raised repeatedly throughout this period of crisis. The contributors to the ninth installment of Stephen Maine’s “Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections” speak to both: writing from Richmond, Virginia, Tanja Softić reflects on the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee statue there, which has been transformed into “an urban palimpsest, shrine, and stage,” while describing a print on her wall as “an enraged elegy” that “speaks with shocking clarity. Especially now.”– Thomas Micchelli, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend

Andy Warhol on Race and Ethnicity Whether we examine Warhol’s work from a Marxist viewpoint or through the lens of queer studies, what has been sidestepped in nearly every discussion is his relationship to race and ethnicity. John Yau

The Prison Drawings of Frank Jones For Frank Jones, making art might have served as a form of spirit-lifting escape from the monotony and tension of his long years in prison. Edward M. Gómez

Songs of Perpetual Self-Discovery Having embraced adulthood with her band Paramore, in her solo debut Hayley Williams advances to full self-actualization. Lucas Fagen

Beer with a Painter: Dan Douke “I was always good at drawing and I would get attention for it. But I wanted to be a rock star.” Jennifer Samet

Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections “When times are dark there is the inclination to want to give up. But the Dark Ages led to the Renaissance.” Stephen Maine

Required Reading This week, Ava DuVernay interviews Angela Davis, newly declassified footage of the world’s largest nuclear explosion, poking fun at wealthy Brooklyn moms, and more. Hrag Vartanian

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