Welcome to the weekend. I’d like to start by thanking everyone who came to our 15th anniversary party on October 9, all of the wonderful performers, and especially our valued members who support our independent art journalism. You made it a night to remember! In the news this week, Nan Goldin and Molly Crabapple were among the 200 activists arrested at a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange. The activists, representing Jewish Voice for Peace, were protesting the rising stock prices of weapons manufacturers amid Israel’s continued attacks against Gaza and Lebanon. Meanwhile, the Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker was appointed president of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Nature met art this week with Iván Argote’s 16-foot-tall sculpture of a pigeon on New York City’s High Line, and a study showed that the brushstrokes in van Gogh’s “Starry Night” align with the laws of fluid motion in physics. Artists pay homage to monsters and fantastical creatures in Nancy Zastudil’s coverage of a monster-themed exhibition in Santa Fe and Julie Schneider’s review of Chitra Ganesh’s art in San Francisco. In books, Jasmine Weber’s review of Rachel Spence’s Battle for the Museum asks if the art world is more corrupt than ever, while Sophia Stewart takes a look at artist-mothers as chronicled in Hettie Judah’s Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, and Ed Simon introduces us to under-sung Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo. And make sure to check out Ari Richter’s comic exploring a Jerry Lewis film about the Holocaust that was never made. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend. — Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor | |
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| | | Though more interested in taxonomy than analysis, the critic’s new book is most exhilarating when it maps a timeline of childrearing’s influence on artists. | Sophia Stewart |
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IN & OUTSIDE NYC | | | | As mid-October rolls around we’re enjoying some serious and not-so-serious art by Carrie Mae Weems, Mala Iqbal, Lady Shalamar Montague, and others. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, and Hakim Bishara
The festival returns for its 22nd edition this week with behind-the-scenes tours of historic landmarks, award-winning architecture, artists’ studios, and more. | Aaron Short
In Interwoven Power, the museum achieves a sorely needed curatorial feat: an institutional display of Indigenous art that courses with vitality. | Greta Rainbow
The artist created many mosaics and murals around East Harlem in celebration of important figures in Puerto Rican and Latinx communities. | Livia Caligor |
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SPONSORED | | | | Exploring the history and creative uses of digital imaging from the 1960s to the present, this groundbreaking exhibition is on view in Riverside, California. Learn more |
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EXHIBITION REVIEWS | | | | There are boundless ways to interpret the artist’s works, each populated with fierce femmes and curious chimera, and layered with symbols. | Julie Schneider
Real or imagined, the monsters envisioned in the show Among Monsters do not exist without us. | Nancy Zastudil
Pacific Abstractions at Perrotin draws attention to Asian abstract artists and traces their legacy through contemporary diasporic artists on the West Coast. | Sigourney Schultz
The artist explores and envisions fire as both violence and resurrection, from the ecstasy of heat-sparked bodies to the agony of a world ablaze in the throes of empire. | Rebecca Goyette |
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BOOKS WE'RE READING | | | | A new book provides an ideal introduction to a Renaissance painter largely known only to specialists, but who was counted among the most important of his generation. | Ed Simon
The photographer’s autobiography takes us on a long voyage from East to West and back again without smoothing over the potholes in the road. | Julia Curl
Rachel Spence succinctly explicates the power struggles that brought us to this point, though her insistence that the art ecosystem is at an all-time low left me unconvinced. | Jasmine Weber
Reflecting on her own reactions to Chantal Akerman’s namesake film, Christine Smallwood muses on the personal baggage we inevitably bring to the art we consume. | Hannah Bonner |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | Linda Yamane taught herself the intricate and nearly extinct craft over 100 years after the last Rumsen basketmakers died. | Isa Farfan
Some Indigenous scholars have come to regard the standard land acknowledgment as “hollow” and “not enough.” | Rhea Nayyar
He has taken appropriation art, which often consists of commonplace acts of citation, quotation, and parody, and set it in a new direction. | John Yau
This week: Recreating Rubens’s studio, Brooklyn honors the legacy of rapper Ka, the largest map of the cosmos to date, Ratatouille in real life, and are video games art? | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Residencies, grants, open calls, and jobs from Amherst College, apexart, Tamarind Institute, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. |
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COMICS | | | | Why did Jerry Lewis spend so much energy concealing The Day the Clown Cried, even in death? | Ari Richter |
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