Among the many losses suffered by Altadena’s art community due to the recent wildfires, one that is particularly heart-wrenching is The Bunny Museum.
| Among the many losses suffered by Altadena’s art community due to the recent wildfires, one that is particularly heart-wrenching is The Bunny Museum. The entire structure, containing 60,000 rabbit-related objects, was destroyed. Staff Reporter Isa Farfan has the story, as well as ways for you to help founders Steve Lubanski and Candace Frazee, who opened the museum 27 years ago, rebuild what they lovingly created.
In other news, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London discovered an earlier image of a woman beneath a Picasso painting. Staff Reporter Rhea Nayyar has the fascinating story, as well as a charming piece on artist Ana Ratner’s annual publication The Other Almanac.
In reviews, Brecht Gander takes a look at Allan Wexler’s mini survey at Jane Lombard Gallery and I head into the heart of darkness that is Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s current exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Additionally, make sure to check out our guide to our favorite shows in NYC this week.
Finally, don’t miss Olivia Quintanilla’s examination of Chamorro craft-making in the Mariana Islands, part of our series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft. — Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor | | |
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| | Researchers detected the mysterious figure in the early-blue period painting “Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto” (1901). | Rhea Nayyar |
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LATEST IN ART | | | The pair tell a grand drama of depravity and degradation, sometimes enacted by official powers like Church and State, other times by rogue players. | Natalie Haddad |
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| | | In his first exhibition in nearly a decade, the artist-builder presents sculptures that are alternatively strange, optimistic, and critical. | Brecht Wright Gander |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Doubling its contributions to immigrant art professionals, the foundation recognizes Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Donna Honarpisheh, Aimé Iglesias Lukin, and Bernardo Mosqueira for their curatorial work. Learn more |
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| | Its contemporary practice reinfuses values into ourselves and our culture, which was deemed unimportant by colonization. | Olivia Quintanilla |
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MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC | | | From AbEx giant Cy Twombly to explorations of assimilation by Serena Chang to the politics of prettiness in the portraits of Marie Laurencin, these shows deserve close looking. | Natalie Haddad |
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| | | This annual publication inverts the almanac form, offering art by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, writing by Naomi Klein, and poems elegizing the plants of Gaza. | Rhea Nayyar |
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| | The co-founders of the world’s largest collection of rabbit-themed items want to recreate “the hoppiest place in the world.” | Isa Farfan |
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MEMBER COMMENT | | Richard Neel on “Facing $10M Budget Deficit, Brooklyn Museum Will Lay Off Dozens of Workers” | | Pasternak should initially look at her personal gains and salary and make adjustments before she asks others to suffer due to what may possibly have been decisions made under her leadership to not have addressed long standing problems. Do we still define this as “leadership”? |
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FEATURED OPPORTUNITY | | Ovissi Foundation – Artistic Program Award | | Nonprofit organizations and individuals producing a program (exhibitions, concert, theater, multimedia) involving artists of Iranian heritage or pertaining to a theme related to Iranian art and culture may apply for $5,000. Also available are $1,500 scholarships for US artists of Iranian heritage enrolled in an MFA program.
Deadline: March 1, 2025 | galleryovissi.com
See more in this month’s list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers! |
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