May 31, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. ❤️ You’ll love this: A Bored Ape NFT dating app was shut down due to a lack of women members. Color me surprised.
Also today, freelance photojournalists are struggling to make ends meet while risking their lives; new efforts to restore and preserve music videos; a moving tribute to slain Korean American artist Christina Yuna Lee; and how should Winslow Homer’s 1899 painting “The Gulf Stream” be read in 2022?
— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief
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The Unseen Depths of Winslow Homer’s “The Gulf Stream”
In this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer’s masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting. | Mark Dery
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A dating app for collectors of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs was forced to shut down earlier this month due to a lack of women members.
A climate activist disguised as a woman in a wheelchair smears the Mona Lisa with cake.
Underpaid and under-resourced, freelance photojournalists are barely hanging on — and risking their lives.
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Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art Presents A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence
This new exhibition in Evanston, Illinois considers how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence for more than a century. Learn more.
REMEMBRANCE & RESTORATION
Commemorating the Life of Christina Yuna Lee
with her name, penetrate earth’s floor remembers the Korean-American creative producer who was murdered in Lower Manhattan at age 35. | Isabel Ling
The World of Music Video Is Finally Adopting Restoration Efforts
As videos shot on film get refurbished for the digital age, we’re discovering more and more fascinating artifacts in the original materials. | Andrew Northrup
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A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration Is Now Open at the Mississippi Museum of Art
This exhibition features newly commissioned works by 12 acclaimed Black contemporary artists, including Carrie Mae Weems, Theaster Gates, and more. Learn more.
Call for Applications: New Archive Fellowship Seeks to Write More Inclusive Histories of Craft
The Center for Craft will award six $5,000 Craft Archive Fellowships to support new research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in a Special Issue on Hyperallergic. Learn more.
INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in the Hudson Valley, New Hampshire, California, and New York City. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
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Shinnecock — Backward | Forward
As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Jeremy Dennis presented an online exhibition and discussion to offer insight into his curatorial process.
