February 16, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. ☁️ Today, Jasmine Weber considers two recent exhibitions by Carrie Mae Weems, researchers have identified the colors that attract mosquitos, and perhaps it’s time to retire the term “forgotten” for women artists discovered later in life or after their death.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
Carrie Mae Weems Assesses History in Real-Time
A tenuous relationship exists in Weems’s work between glamour and guts; yet neither attribute suffers on behalf of the other. | Jasmine Weber
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Japanese Film Festival Online 2022 Streams Free Through February 27
Available in 25 countries around the world, this virtual film festival features 20 Japanese films with subtitles in 15 languages. Learn more.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
A widely circulated meme on Twitter poking fun at Russian President Vladimir Putin's meeting with his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov around an unusually long table (via Twitter)
An encounter between a pedestrian and a group of art students produces one of TikTok’s latest viral catchphrase — “OK, I like it, Picasso.”
In Maine, the Portland Museum of Art kicks off an $85M campaign to more than double its square footage.
A new study identifies four colors that attract mosquitos the most.
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SVA Artist Residency Programs Are On-campus and Online This Summer
April 1 is the priority application deadline for residencies and intensives in studio art, technology, performance, social practice, design, and more. Learn more.
LATEST IN ART
Famakan Magassa's Virtuous Vice
The Malian painter’s first solo exhibition in New York muses on the desires and compulsions that guide us toward enlightenment — and occasionally get us into trouble. | Billy Anania
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Yashua Klos: OUR LABOUR Is Now Open at the Wellin Museum of Art
In his first solo museum show, Klos continues exploring the intersections between the human form, the natural world, and the built environment. Learn more.
Byron Kim Achieves Equilibrium
Perhaps these paintings are what it feels like for the artist to be in a state of not being harried, anxious or in deep existentialist dread. | Seph Rodney
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Why the Word “Forgotten” Isn’t Helping Women Artists
This word expresses a passivity that obscures the reality of these women’s stories. I prefer the more accurate “erased.” | Hall W. Rockefeller
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The Morgan Library & Museum Presents Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In Community
Now on view in New York City, this exhibition celebrates the life and work of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize. Learn more.
Images of When the USSR Was an “Ally of Black Liberation Causes”
The museum says the current scale of its campus is standing in the way of diversity and the community’s needs. | Valentina Di Liscia
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