January 11, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. 🌤️ Today, vandals permanently damage ancient rock sculptures in Texas, the allure of pastels, and a sensationalistic film about January 6 doesn’t know what it wants to be.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
Andres Serrano’s Sensationalistic Flop About January 6
Insurrection is a blunt effort by an artist to find a sensational edge to a national tragedy. | Kriston Capps
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
Vandals defaced a panel of ancient petroglyphs at Big Bend National Park in Texas (courtesy of the National Park Service)
Vandals scratch over petroglyphs thousands of years old on an ancient rock art panel at Texas’ Big Bend National Park.
Italy’s long-term loan of a Parthenon fragment to the Acropolis Museum in Athens is seen as a nudge for the British Museum to follow suit.
In New York, an unprecedented act will require major fashion companies to disclose the environmental impacts of their production processes.
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In Colette Lumière’s world, the theatricality of Versailles meets the punk ethos of the Sex Pistols. | Ksenia M. Soboleva
