October 27, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. 🌤️ Everyone is talking about Kanye West’s (or Ye's) hateful remarks about Jewish people, but we all know that the problem is much bigger than him. Today, we cover the art world's reactions to the rise of antisemitism in the US including a stirring guest column by the artist Deborah Kass, which I recommended you read.
In other news today, the Getty Museum is restoring an Artemisia Gentileschi painting that was damaged in the horrific Beirut explosion of 2020, Lil Nas X stages a "revenge" on behalf of van Gogh's souped painting in London, and much more.
Lastly, it looks like Elon Musk is about to close the deal to buy Twitter this week. So how about you follow us on LinkedIn? Don't laugh, LinkedIn is coming back big time.
— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
I'm Jewish and I Don't Want to Leave Again
America was our promised land but we might not be safe here anymore.| Deborah Kass
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Launching Today: New Prints from Bernhardt, Pettibon, and More
Browse a focused online selection of prints and editions as part of David Zwirner’s participation in the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair in New York.
Discover new lithographs by Katherine Bernhardt, Raymond Pettibon, and Neo Rauch, as well as a suite of prints by Marcel Dzama.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Getty will return “Hercules and Omphale” to the Sursock Palace after both the painting and building have been restored. (photo by Cassia Davis; courtesy the Getty)
After sustaining severe damage in the Beirut blast, Artemisia Gentileschi's “Hercules and Omphale” is undergoing restoration at the Getty.
Previously presumed lost for over 200 years, a seldom-seen Peter Paul Rubens painting is going under the hammer this January.
Several companies affiliated with Ye and his projects have severed ties with the disgruntled artist at last.
Lil Nas X responds to Just Stop Oil’s recent tomato soup action with a hilarious meme on social media.
Pierre Soulages, known by many as the "Painter of Black," dies at 102.
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Wrightwood 659’s Fall Exhibitions Highlight the Expansive Cosmos and Same-Sex Desire
Discover works by Michiko Itatani in Celestial Stage and the history of queer identity in art in The First Homosexuals, now on view at the Chicago art space. Learn more.
PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
The Enthralling Solitude of Leigh Werrell's Art
For Werrell, moments of disconnection and isolation in the city become opportunities to find enchantment in the act of looking. | Lev Feigin
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Washington University in St. Louis Offers an Interdisciplinary MFA in Visual Art
Prospective students can meet faculty, tour studios, and learn more about the two-year residential program at a virtual open house on November 7. Learn more.
Long Live Life’s Little Moments
Han's paintings are at once cryptic and straightforward, inaccessible and yet meticulously laid out. | John Yau
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This Year’s Singapore Biennale Is Named Natasha
In taking a human name, the Singapore Biennale 2022 envisions itself as an intimate and collective journey with artists and audiences. On view through March 19, 2023. Learn more.
How Do We Free Those Who Are Already Free?
African scholars Felwine Sarr and Dorcy Rugamba seek to answer this question with the musical theatre performance Freedom, I’ll have lived your dream until the very last day. | Emma Forgione
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IN MEMORIAM
Rodney Graham (1949-2022)
Canadian Photoconceptualist | Hyperallergic
Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022)
New Yorker art critic | Hyperallergic
Pierre Soulages (1919-2022)
French abstract painter | Hyperallergic
