Good morning, or rather: ¡Dios mío! Yet another botched art restoration in Spain, this time in the northeastern city of Soria, has cultural heritage advocates wondering what went wrong after the beloved cherubim of an 18th-century church received a rather startling makeover. Our new Staff Reporter, Isa Farfan, has the story. Over the next week, we’ll be sharing Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian’s in-depth conversations with Hyperallergic’s 2024 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellows, starting today with Chicana artist, curator, and death doula Brianna L. Hernández. The talk is a great opportunity to revisit Hernández’s moving exhibitions and essays on art and end-of-life traditions. More below, including Lise Ragbir’s recommendations for institutions looking to become more equitable and our monthly art crossword. (Took me 12 minutes — how about you?)
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Mining the rich legacy of art as a way to honor the dead, Hyperallergic Fellow Brianna L. Hernández traced the history of funerary arts to contemporary practitioners.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
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Cultural heritage advocates in Soria are calling for increased regulation as critics draw comparisons to the infamous “Monkey Christ” fiasco. | Isa Farfan
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Aleksandra “Sasha” Skochilenko was given a seven-year sentence for an art project and protest that criticized Russia’s war on Ukraine. | Isa Farfan
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC
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Tips for arts organizations on how to get it right through times of inequity and unrest. | Lise Ragbir |
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Spend the dog days of summer pondering MoMA’s 404 error page, frisky tourists in Rome, the art of glasses, and Olympics Bacchanalia. | Natan Last
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
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Author M. T. Anderson walks us through a sonic gallery of Vasily Kandinsky’s musical influences, which guided the painter’s pursuit of art that reveals a mystical, inner truth.
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