Happy Tuesday! 🌧️ Today, we bring you reviews of exhibitions by Artemesia Gentileschi and Amoako Boafo, three films that highlight Indigenous stories, and the story of Ronnie Goodman, an unhoused artist who died in San Francisco this past August.

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Ronnie Goodman died on August 7 at his encampment on the corner of 16th and Capp streets in San Francisco, an intersection he depicted five years earlier in a self-portrait.

In his work, Goodman had long addressed his position as a Black man who experienced houselessness, addiction, and incarceration, foregrounding the interconnectedness of these struggles. Today, much of Goodman’s art appears not only to draw on his life but to anticipate his death. 

A new public sculpture installed near the site of the Harvey Weinstein trials in New York City seeks to reimagine the myth of Medusa amid the #MeToo era by shifting the power to women. But the sculpture is already controversial.

A new open letter calls on the New Orleans Museum of Art to “take the first step toward restoring its relationship with the New Orleans community it claims to serve.” The letter amplifies the demands of the initiative #DismantleNOMA.

Demonstrators protesting Columbus Day and violence toward Native people toppled statues of former presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in downtown Portland, Oregon.