Good morning. 🌧 Today, some “bad beuys” stole an artwork, Spain appears to be the global epicenter of botched art restorations, and the wonky joy (my term, not the author’s) of late Clyfford Still.
– Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
We Need More Creatives in Politics
Jonathan Gardenhire, “Self Portrait” (2020) Credit: (image courtesy the artist)
Contemporary artists and cultural workers are at the forefront of today’s leading issues. Creative types are an untapped group of exciting potential political candidates who are equipped with the lived and professional experience that would benefit public service and policy.
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In Other News
The nation’s first memorial celebrating Native American veterans – located on the east side of the National Museum of the American Indian in DC – marks a major step forward in the recognition of their service.
The exhibition features a unique collection of sculptures and paintings by Abstract Expressionists and contemporary expressionist artists, on view through January 8, 2021.
Making the Met, the anniversary exhibition chronicling the museum’s first 150 years, botched several opportunities to truly reckon with its role in defining who is and isn’t included in dominant narratives of art history.
The Late Works: Clyfford Still in Maryland offers a historical pivot by focusing on the last 20 years of the artist’s life, revealing his most productive period and foregrounding work that is rarely discussed.
In the transdisciplinary journal’s sixth issue, artists and scholars explore how atmospheres and rhythms shape our perceptions of and relationships with the world.
As a field, we’ve waited far too long for these institutions to get on board. So now the call is for us: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color artists, leaders, and the organizations that serve us.
A self-avowed pleasure activist, writer and professor Sami Schalk is building a project that revels in taking simple yet transformative steps towards feeling good, while rejecting ableist frameworks.
APIARY, Black Quantum Futurism, Creative Resilience Collective, Grizzly Grizzly, and the Reentry Think Tank received $15,000 each as part of the regranting initiative.
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