June 24, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. ☀️ Today's newsletter is packed with excellent articles and reviews. The big story in the news is a court ruling in Tamara Lanier's lawsuit against Harvard University for holding and reproducing daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors. Our News Editor Valentina Di Liscia has the story.
Let me just say that I love Isabella Segalovich's piece, which looks at how women's eyebrows were depicted in art throughout the centuries. It's eye-opening.
Also recommended: Natalie Haddad on Lynda Benglis's latest works; John Yau on Alison Hall; Jasmine Liu on the show Wonder Women at Jeffrey Deitch, New York, and more.
— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief
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A Brief History of Women's Eyebrows in Art
Since antiquity, women’s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles. | Isabella Segalovich
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
Brian Jungen, "Couch Monster: Sadzěʔ yaaghęhch’ill" (2022), bronze (all images © Brian Jungen, courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario)
The Art Gallery of Toronto’s first public commission casts Brian Jungen’s 13-foot elephant sculpture made of discarded sofas in bronze.
- Tamara Lanier can now sue Harvard for “emotional distress” over the continued reproduction and use of her enslaved ancestors’ daguerreotypes.
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Call for Applications: New Archive Fellowship Seeks to Write More Inclusive Histories of Craft
The Center for Craft will award six $5,000 Craft Archive Fellowships to support new research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in a Special Issue on Hyperallergic. Application deadline is June 27. Learn more.
LATEST IN ART
Lynda Benglis Basks in the Light of Her Art
In Benglis's latest works, the forces of gravity that defined her seminal poured latex and polyurethane pieces are traded for luminous bronzes. | Natalie Haddad
Asian Women and Nonbinary Artists Paint Their Major Feelings
A landmark show of 30 artists at Jeffrey Deitch gallery in New York keeps the category of Asian figuration open-ended. | Jasmine Liu
Alison Hall's Hypnotic Paintings Invite Slow Looking
Hall makes no attempt to entice the viewer to begin looking and to look again, letting her methodical craft compel viewers to reflect upon their experience. | John Yau
MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC
The Disappearing Queer Spaces of the Harlem Renaissance
A new project by Columbia’s Queer Students of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation explores queer histories that have been suppressed by gentrification and urban development. | Jasmine Liu
Required Reading
This week, Title IX celebrates 50 years, the trouble with pronouns, a writer’s hilarious response to plagiarism allegations, and much more. | Hakim Bishara
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TRANSITIONS
Yevgeniya Baras is now represented by Sargent's Daughters.
Angela Cassie was appointed interim director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada.
Sebastian Cichocki will curate the 40th edition of the EVA International, Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art.
Cecilia Vicuña is now represented by Xavier Hufkens. The artist will continue to be represented by Lehmann Maupin.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
Carnegie International has released the names of the artists, collectives, and institutions that will participate in its 58th edition in September. A complete list of participants can be found here.
Alexis Heller and Tatiana Muños-Brenes were announced as the recipients of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation's Curatorial Open Call.
Fifteen artists were selected for the Storm King Art Center and Shandaken Projects’s 2022 residency. They are Patricia Ayres, Quinci Baker, Caleb Jamel Brown, Nickolas Calabrese, Lucas de Lima, Manal Kara, Tina Lam, Juan Luna-Avin, Susan Metrican, Narcissister, Mimi Park, Peat Szilagyi, Ruby T, Christopher Udemezue, and Phyllis Yao.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Death by Wallpaper: The Alluring Arsenic Colors that Poisoned the Victorian Age
Lucinda Hawksley’s book Bitten by Witch Fever chronicles the rise of poisonous pigments in the 19th century through the burgeoning British wallpaper trade. | Allison Meier
