August 18, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ Today, Mexico continues to demand Austria return a one-of-a-kind feather headdress, the NY Public Library’s newest artwork considering writing through the ages, and an artist redesigns a common gynecological tool.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

In Kansas City, a 20,000-square-foot Arts Campus Aims to Bring Together the City’s Artists

The total renovation of the Charlotte Street Foundation arts center was catalyzed by an artist-driven core mission to support and catalyze a local artistic community. | Katy Henriksen

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Exhibitions Champion Women-Led Movements and Socially Engaged Art at CCS Bard

Two shows at the Hessel Museum of Art in the Hudson Valley highlight the intimacy of works on paper and the under-examined “Pattern and Decoration” movement.

All These Artworks Have Been Censored By Instagram

Artists from Imogen Cunningham and Sebastião Salgado to Peo Michie and Lena Chen have had their works banned from the platform, despite Instagram's ostensibly art-friendly guidelines. | Valentina Di Liscia

New NY Public Library Installation Is Inspired by History of Writing

Hayal Pozanti created a set of 31 unique shapes years ago through a combination of intuition and research into ancient writing systems. | Lauren Moya Ford

Austria Should Repatriate the Mexica Headdress

The headdress in Austria is the only one of its kind and it’s not only a work of art, but a representation of the identity and landscape of Mexico that was stripped from the nation by colonial forces. | Kayla Johnson

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In New Memoir, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Offers Candid Takes on Sex, Gender, Art, and Love

P-Orridge, who helped popularize nonbinary identity, wrote h/er memoir while living out h/er last days with leukemia. | Billy Anania

Nao Bustamante Redesigns a Common Gynecological Tool

Nao Bustamante has been thinking of ways to make the speculum less unpleasant for the millions of patients who encounter it each year. | Lauren Moya Ford

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