Good morning. In honor of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, comic artist Jesse Lambert shares an evocatively illustrated piece on survivor and painter Arshile Gorky. The story begins at a memorial grove installed in Manhattan’s Union Square, not far from where the artist’s studio was once located. Read the moving comic in full below.
In the news, a Leonora Carrington painting heads to auction while Hollywood actor Chris Pratt is under fire for demolishing an iconic mid-century home in Los Angeles.
We also review a photography book on everyday life in Palestine before the 1948 Nakba, offer a glimpse into late Japanese-American artist Toshiko Takaezu’s teachings, visit UCLA’s MFA exhibition, and much more in this newsletter.
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— Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor
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Across the street from the painter's former studio in Manhattan's Union Square, 20 trees had been planted to honor the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide.
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Hosted by Helen Molesworth, Season 8 of Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast features conversations with Lauren Halsey and George Clinton, Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham, Michael Govan and Cauleen Smith, R. Crumb, Grace Wales Bonner and Horace Ballard, and more—all coming together to talk about what it means to make things today.
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Mary Lum is interested in the deeply rooted human desire to make meaning out of everything, while recognizing that language is a slippery phenomenon.
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Graduates of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design showcase their thesis work on campus and at the MassArt x SoWa Gallery, with public artist talks and screening on May 10.
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While some of the works lack the finesse of more seasoned veterans, these artists have cultivated firm, incisive critiques of the powers that be.
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Claudia Ross |
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Archival photography in Against Erasure ranges from uprisings to olive tree cultivation and an open-air cinema.
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Summer Farah |
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The late artist’s unusual classes and apprentice program continue to inspire a mix of play and discipline in her former students’ practices.
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Kealey Boyd |
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From affordable art to photography to art books and more, the usual suspects return for a packed season.
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