November 7, 2022

Good morning. ☀️ Let's start the week right with a report that suggests art in the workplace improves employee well-being. You got that right. What do you have on your walls at work?

Then there's the Heidi Klum worm costume, which I think hands down won Halloween this year. The supermodel's mind-numbingly wow outfit has even inspired memes, and we've gathered some of the best out there.

And Lyndsay Knecht has put together a list of some of the newest up-and-coming art venues in Los Angeles that you might want to consider checking out if you make it to the City of Angels.  

Now, let's keep our fingers crossed about US Election Day this week. If you haven't voted early, there's one more chance, and we encourage everyone who can to please vote! 

The health of democracy depends on ALL our participation.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Kei Ito Traces Tragedy and Mourning

Ito’s rubbings and multimedia works are traces of a global tragedy still imprinted in the memories of Americans more than two decades later. | Dereck Stafford Mangus

WHAT'S HAPPENING

• Heidi Klum’s worm costume was good, but the memes are better.

• An American Alliance of Museums (AAM) volunteer committee voted unanimously to resign from the organization’s Museum Studies Professional Network (MSN) after its chair was asked to sign a code of ethics that mandated “loyalty” and limited public criticism of AAM.

• A Yemeni researcher alleges that dozens of unlabeled artifacts originating from Yemen are slated for sale at a British auction house later this month, reflecting the Saudi-led trafficking of “blood antiquities” to international markets.

• A new research study found that for 69% of participants, having "interesting and visually striking art" at the workplace contributes to their well-being. 

• The Art Show at Park Avenue Armory returned to a sparse audience. Virtually everyone remarked on how quiet the fair was, with some reveling in this fact and others casting it plainly as a failure.

LATEST REVIEWS

Istanbul Biennial Asks, Can We Talk?

Spread across a dozen venues, with 500 contributors from almost 30 nations, the Biennial aims to draw in a public estranged by politics and two years of pandemic lockdowns. | Ayla Jean Yackley

Who Holds the Power in Art?

If art is power, as Farah Nayeri's Takedown consistently shows, then how can galleries and museums successfully negotiate relationships of power?| David Carrier

Two Artist-Physicians Address the Impacts of Uranium Mining

Chip Thomas and Ken Ogawa are creating sight and sound installations to raise awareness about ecological devastation and injustice. | Lynn Trimble

NEW INDIE ART SPACES IN LA

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