February 25, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌧️ Today, Roy Lichtenstein donates his studio to the Whitney Museum, Moses Sumney finds inspiration in Blackalachia, and a large Ancient Roman mosaic was discovered in central London.

And a reminder that this Sunday, February 27, we will be sending curator Jeremy Dennis’s email exhibition, the final email in the series for the Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators. Please RSVP and join us for a conversation with the curator on Tuesday, March 1, at 7 pm.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief 

A Musician's Introspective Journey Through the Lush Appalachian Landscape

In creating Blackalachia and living in North Carolina, Sumney encourages creatives who find themselves struggling to define their art on their own terms. | Colony Little

NEWS TODAY

MOLA archaeologists at work on the mosaic unearthed in Southwark (all images ©MOLA and Andy Chopping; courtesy MOLA)

• A nearly complete Roman mosaic is discovered during a construction excavation in London, hailed as “a once-in-a-lifetime find.”

• Roy Lichtenstein’s Greenwich Village studio is gifted to the Whitney Museum, becoming the new home for the Independent Study Program.

• Man Ray’s iconic “Le Violon d’Ingres” could become the most expensive photograph ever sold, estimated to fetch between $5-7 million at aution.

UPCOMING EVENT

The Art-historical Past, Present, and Future of the Shinnecock Indian Nation

On Tuesday, March 1, at 7 pm (EST), join us for a special event with curator and artist Jeremy Dennis as he discusses the art-historical legacy of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, of which he is an enrolled member, and his upcoming Hyperallergic email exhibition, which delves into the past and present of the Nation’s long-standing presence on what is now known as Southampton Village on Long Island, NY.

The conversation will also explore Dennis’s exhibition Outcropping- Indigenous Art Now, which is on view at the Southampton Arts Center on Shinnecock’s ancestral homelands through April 9, 2022, and features work by contemporary Shinnecock artists and Indigenous artists from various sovereign nations throughout the United States.

Register here.

LATEST IN ART

Ten Thousand-Year Art Tradition of the Shinnecock People

Shinnecock’s continued presence as a sovereign nation has been slowly rendered invisible by neighbors in the Hamptons. | Jeremy Dennis

Asako Tabata Paints a World Between Reality and Imagination

The subject running through all of Tabata's works is the meeting place of one’s inner and outer life, of psychic states and outward responsibility, and the different frictions that can arise in that gap. | John Yau

An Artist Shifts the Focus of a Folktale from Guilt to Liberation

Azzah Sultan acknowledges the power of stories we tell ourselves and each other, and our power to change their meanings. | Vittoria Benzine

MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC

When the Ancient Greeks Go Rogue

David Hadbawnik and Anne Carson aren’t aiming to produce new schoolroom translations of the classics; they’ve reimagined these ancient texts in the light of our violent and chaotic contemporaneity. | Mark Scroggins

Required Reading

This week, the Met Museum acquired a Renaissance bronze, Ukraine's museums are scrambling to protect their collections, reviewing the new Elden Ring video game, and more. | Hrag Vartanian

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TRANSITIONS

Seth Feman was named executive director and CEO of the Frist Art Museum.

Billy Tang was named executive director and curator of Para Site in Hong Kong.

Phumelele Tshabalala is now represented by Lyles & King Gallery.

IN MEMORIAM

Dan Graham (1942-2022)
Conceptual artist and writer | ARTnews

Mona Saudi (1945–2022)
Jordanian artist and sculptor | The Art Newspaper

De Wain Valentine (1936-2022)
Sculptor of California's Light and Space movement | ARTnews

Paul Willen (1928-2022)
Manhattan waterfront architect | New York Times

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