December 8, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ Today, our best-of lists continue with our picks for New York City and Los Angeles, a hedge fund billionaire surrenders $70 in looted art, and three exhibitions in Madrid tackle colonialism.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Best of 2021: Our Top 10 New York City Art Shows

The city brought shows to life that will be talked about for years to come.

Best of 2021: Our Top 10 Los Angeles Art Shows

Our favorite LA shows of 2021, brought to you by the writers and editors of Hyperallergic.

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Yerits Mankants Monastery in the Martakert Region (via Wikimedia Commons)

The International Court of Justice rules that Azerbaijan must stop destroying Armenian historic, cultural, and religious heritage in Artsakh.

Cultural workers in Afghanistan urge international officials to help them relocate to safety as humanitarian conditions reach catastrophic levels.

Billionaire collector Michael H. Steinhardt surrenders $70M in looted art, receiving a lifetime ban from acquiring antiques by the Manhattan D.A.’s office.

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SMFA at Tufts is seeking applications for at least four full-time Professor of the Practice positions in Sound/Sound Installation, Ceramics, Sculpture, and Drawing. Learn more.

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The Whirling, Spiritual Abstraction of June Edmonds

Full Spectrum spans 40 years of the artist’s career and provides an efficient crash course for anyone new to Edmonds’s work. | Allison Conner

Colonial Fault Lines Fracture the Madrid Art Landscape

A show at the Prado valorizes cross-cultural flows while muffling ruptures, and two contemporary art exhibitions critique Hispanic legacies to investigate how art history occludes power. | Emily Sun

How a Documentary Used Animation to Protect the Identity of Its Main Character

Afghan refugee Amin didn’t feel comfortable telling director Jonas Poher Rasmussen his story without a way to conceal his identity. Rasmussen explains the process to Hyperallergic. | M.Z. Adnan

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The NYUAD Art Gallery Shows Rare Collection of Work From 1960s Iran, Turkey, and India

On view in Abu Dhabi until February 5, 2022, the paintings and sculptures in “Modernisms” shed new light on artists like Parviz Tanavoli, Fahrelnissa Zeid, and M.F. Husain. Learn more.

COMICS

Color Me a Radical

Now that's change. | Guy Richards Smit

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