April 7, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning.🌧️ Today, an exhibition in Madrid allows you to smell the paintings, the Getty acquired a major collection of Black art books and ephemera, and reviews of Candace Lin, Utako Shindo, David Lynch’s new film restoration.

Lori Waxman also makes her debut on Hyperallergic in this edition. A veteran art critic based in Chicago, she will be covering the city’s galleries for the publication.

And a reminder that our Twitter Spaces event today at noon ET will host critic Paddy Johnson and we will be discussing time management for artists and arts professionals. 

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief 

Four Chicago Galleries Explore the Art of Arranging

An ingenious arrangement can engender awareness of spatial relationships, provide a much-needed sense of order, or offer purely aesthetic mysteries. | Lori Waxman

LATEST NEWS

Jan Brueghel I & Peter Paul Rubens, "The Sense of Smell" (1617-18) (via Wikimedia Commons)

• The Prado Museum has collaborated with a fragrance company to create ten scents of the items seen in “The Sense of Smell.”

• Yale University relinquishes over a dozen looted antiquities from India and Burma, nine of which were linked to disgraced dealer Subhash Kapoor.

• The Getty acquires an LA bookseller couple’s expansive Black art archive, which amounts to some 3,500 artist’s books, catalogs, and rare ephemera.

ART & FILM

An Artist's Multi-Species Mythology, Inspired by Her Cat

Set in a realm where humans are no longer sovereign, Candice Lin's elaborate installation foregrounds the lives and deaths of felines, critters, microbes, and demons in a practice of making kin. | Sasha Cordingley

Shadow Play and the Art of Utako Shindo

Utako Shindo is interested in transitional passages and hinge experiences, or what she calls the “in-between spatiality.” | John Yau

With Inland Empire, David Lynch Crafted a Nightmare on Home Video

Through a suitably unusual restoration process, the famed surreal artist/filmmaker’s last feature film to date can be experienced in a whole new way. | Cole Kronman

ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC

The Art of Painting Divine Domes

Harout Bastajian has built a career painting calligraphic and geometric designs for the domes of mosques around the world. The results are stunning. | Hrag Vartanian

Where a New African Museum Fits in a Post-Colonial World

The question remains: Is an African museum, designed by an African architect, capable of undoing the institutional violence that it has inherited? | Bami Oke

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IN MEMORIAM 

Nancy Lane (1934–2022), art collector and longtime trustee of the Studio Museum in Harlem | New York Times

Margaret Rose Vendryes (1955–2022), artist, art historian, and trustee at the Leslie-Lohman Museum | via Email

Ashton Hawkins (1938–2022), art lawyer and former executive vice president at the Metropolitan Museum of Art| New York Times

Donald Baechler (1957–2022), American visual artist | Artnews

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