Jun 11, 2021 • View in browser

Happy Friday! ☁️

For the New Yorkers out there, you might particularly appreciate Elizabeth Bick’s photos of dancerly pedestrians. Lauren Moya Ford spoke with Bick about her process, and how the artist ended up approaching one pedestrian and asking to follow them home.

Also today, read about a collection of 6,000 photos of old Hollywood, an argument for moving beyond all-women artist shows, and plan your weekend watching with our latest film reviews below.

—Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

Photographer Captures the Unexpected, Everyday Choreography of NYC's Streets

Elizabeth Bick’s photographs inject a sense of theatricality and intention into the randomness of everyday life.

Lauren Moya Ford

Leading Headlines

Participants in a protest for Palestinian rights in front of the Museum of Modern Art, NY

Kara Walker, Nan Goldin, Simone Leigh, and Yto Barrada are among 16,000 international artists who signed a “Letter Against Apartheid,” denouncing Israeli violence against Palestinians.
More than 6,000 photographs spanning the history of Hollywood from 1916 to the 1970s have entered the collection of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.
Kevin McCoy’s “Quantum,” the first NFT ever created, sells for $1.4 millionat auction.

Latest on Film

A First-Person Interrogation of a Family's Guilt-Ridden Past

A combination video essay and road movie, Angelo Madsen Minax’s North By Current understands life upheavals as rites of passage.

Ren Scateni

A '70s PSA Depicts Life for the Elderly as a Funhouse Nightmare

The Lutheran Society had no idea what they were in for when they had zombie movie icon George Romero direct The Amusement Park, long lost but now restored.

Anthony Hawley

Opinion

We Don’t Need More Temporary Exhibitions of All Women Artists

This curatorial approach is self-defeating in furthering a feminist art historical discourse.

Sofia Cotrona

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