January 3, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌥️ Happy New Year! Today, we have your January art guides for New York and Los Angeles, scientists have digitally unwrapped a famous ancient Egyptian mummy, and the new Matrix film explores how our understanding of gender and identity has shifted since the first films in the series.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Noah Davis, "Untitled" (2015) (image courtesy the Underground Museum)

There’s plenty to look forward to in Los Angeles’s art galleries this month, including the Underground Museum reopening with what will surely be a knock-out show of Noah Davis’s paintings.

In New York, the mood is reflective and inward-looking, as artists consider mirrors and windows, the people we’ve lost, and the punitive and patriarchal systems.

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Amenhotep I’s funerary mask (courtesy Sahar Saleem and Zahi Hawass)

A new CT scan of the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I gives us an unusual look at his physical traits and the ornaments that bejewel his inner wrappings.

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Jonny Negron’s Darker Portraits of Party Life

Jonny Negron captures the disappointment and delights of Dionysian narcissism. | Jennifer Remenchik

A Return to The Matrix Explores Binary Thinking

With The Matrix Resurrections, writer/director Lana Wachowski critically examines how our understanding of gender and identity has changed since the original trilogy. | Juan Barquin

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