Andy Warhol and Otters

September 28, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ I'd like to begin by recommending our critic John Yau's review today of an exhibition by the artist Mire Lee. What I love about this piece is the vulnerability of John's writing. Not entirely sure what the work is about, he retreats into himself, which is, in his words, "not necessarily a soothing place."

Also today, a labor dispute at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Proud Boys terrorists disrupt a drag show at a Memphis museum, Andy Warhol's prank on students at the University of Utah in 1967, and otters, otters, otters.

— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor

Otters Are Art History’s Unsung Muses

From ancient times to the present day, join us as we pay tribute to these otter-ly charismatic creatures in various visual media. | Sarah Rose Sharp

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Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space

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The Andy Warhol Lecture That Never Happened

It's been 55 years since Warhol hired a lookalike to prank students at the University of Utah. What lessons on celebrity and capitalist consumption did his hoax reveal? | Scotti Hill

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