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Good morning. 🌤️ Today, Colony Little talks to artist Betye Saar, a Danish artist takes a museum’s money and calls it a day, and a large new art space opens in Brooklyn.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
Danish Artist Runs Away With Museum's Cash and Calls it Art
Artist Jens Haaning claimed that the stunt was in reaction to the low fees offered to him by the museum. | Hakim Bishara
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Wrightwood 659 Conjures Long-lost Icons of American Architecture
Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright memorializes Chicago’s Garrick Theatre and Buffalo’s Larkin Building, which were razed to build a parking lot and a truck stop. Learn more.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Storms over Wupatki Pueblo (all images courtesy of the National Park Service)
The Getty grants $1.3 million to support the development of a conservation plan for the Wupatki National Monument in Arizona.
- Jordan Casteel, Nicole Fleetwood, and Daniel Lind-Ramos are among the 25 recipients of this year's MacArthur “Genius” Award.
LATEST IN ART
For Inspiration, Betye Saar Turns to Her Doll Collection
Saar's irreverent paintings of dolls from her collection celebrate the catharsis she found in play. | Colony Little
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An Exhibition at Krannert Art Museum Delves Into Louise Fishman’s Works on Paper
Remaking the abstract expressionist gesture and minimalist grid, the drawings on view at KAM at the University of Illinois center the artist’s identities as Jewish, feminist, and lesbian. Learn more.
What Might a New, 21,000-square-foot Art Space Bring to Brooklyn?
With the opening of the new, $40 million structure in East Williamsburg, it poses the question of its role in the local arts community — one of collaboration or conquest? | Sophia Stewart
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Tender Pictures Capture a Gender-confirming Journey
Photographer Fin Serck-Hanssen follows Hedda, a Norwegian in her early 20s, as she travels to undergo cosmetic surgeries and a vaginoplasty. | Lauren Moya Ford
What it Means to Break the Museum’s Most Sacred Rule
In 1989, Ed Brzezinski, on a visit to Robert Gober’s exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery, ate one of the donuts from Gober’s piece, “Bag of Donuts.” | Priya Gandhi
A Washed-up Porn Star Wreaks Trumpian Mayhem in His Hometown
Sean Baker’s film about a washed-up porn star seducing a teenage girl is sexually frank in a way few US films are now. | Grace Han
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