Apr 9, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ Today, Kusama blooms at the New York Botanical Garden, the Louvre digitizes 482,000 artworks, and William Kentridge at Marian Goodman Gallery.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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Dots for Days: Kusama Blooms at the New York Botanical Garden

Cosmic Nature invites viewers to celebrate the artist’s joyful, creative energy after a year of loss and grieving.

Bedatri D. Choudhury

What's Happening

Anonymous artist, "Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs" (ca. 1575–1600), oil on wood (© 2017 RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Tony Querrec)

The Louvre digitized nearly half a million artworks from its collection.
Remember the anti-racist activist group that ransomed a Confederate monument last month? They made good on their promise to turn it into a toilet (and used a Confederate flag as toilet paper).

How 2020 changed William Kentridge

Viewed in 2021, Kentridge’s preference for black and white strikes as an urging to see issues of morality more clearly.

Daniel Larkin

How to Build Resilient Black Arts Organizations

For three and a half years, I ran Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn while dealing with issues of precarity.

Rob Fields

An Elder Takes a Stand Against a Lesotho Dam Project

Lesotho’s Oscar submission This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is a stirring look at resistance to injustice done in the name of “progress.”

Dan Schindel

A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine

This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Illinois, New York, and Connecticut.

Elisa Wouk Almino