| Last week, Hyperallergic broke the news that the Brooklyn Museum plans to lay off dozens of its workers. The staff cuts come as the museum faces a $10 million budget deficit after years of financial troubles. News Editor Valentina Di Liscia has the scoop below.
In other news, the crypto bro who recently purchased and subsequently ate a very expensive banana — you know the one — launches a legal battle, while artist Fareed Armaly declines a German prize in protest of the country’s censorship of pro-Palestine expression.
Clearly, the news cycle freneticism never ends. But neither does the art. Make sure to dig into our editors’ incisive reviews of shows in New York City: Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian on Nolan Oswald’s first US show, Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad on political prettiness in Marie Laurencin’s work (pretty privilege discourse taken up a notch), and Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang on Cy Twombly and the beauty of “the wobbly human hand.” And for a moving meditation on Imani Perry’s book Black in Blues, which we excerpted last month, artist Chloë Bass writes about her own “blue period” and what it means to consider the color’s prismatic meanings in the history of Blackness. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | | |
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 | | The staff cuts will affect both full- and part-time workers across union and non-union roles. | Valentina Di Liscia |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | This is the artist’s first solo exhibition since his landmark show at Feature Inc. over a decade ago. Learn more |
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LATEST REVIEWS |  | | Nolan Oswald sees the pre- and postcolonial worlds as contemporaneous and interlocking. | Hrag Vartanian |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | Indigenous artists offer perspectives on the art of Chicagoland in this new exhibition at The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. Learn more |
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 | | The artist has a point: Why is aesthetic pleasure often relegated to the sidelines of art? Why paint rotting fish when you can paint pretty femmes? | Natalie Haddad |
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|  | | His works are distinctly earthly endeavors, showcasing the human hand in all its striving. | Lisa Yin Zhang |
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|  | | In Black in Blues, Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as one of both triumph and tragedy, possibility and limitation. | Chloë Bass |
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MEMBER COMMENT | | Guerilla Girls on “Re-evaluating the Guerrilla Girls for Today’s Politics” | | We want like everyone to know that the Anatomically Correct Oscar billboard that was commented above as being ‘a bit late on the scene’ was actually a retooling of a billboard we did fourteen years earlier, in 2002. It was up on Hollywood Boulevard that year during the month of the Academy Awards. We redid the earlier work with updated stats in 2016 after the #oscarssowhite movement to show how little progress had happened. We did a lot of stickers, posters and billboards about the film industry between 2002-2006 that all can see on our projects page. https://www.guerrillagirls.com/projects |
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