Faith Ringgold passed away earlier this month at the age of 93, but the legacy of her illustrated quilts and canvases and her commitment to Black feminist activism lives on.
Good morning. Faith Ringgold passed away earlier this month at the age of 93, but the legacy of her illustrated quilts and canvases and her commitment to Black feminist activism lives on. Writer and former Hyperallergic editor Jasmine Weber, who remembers reading Ringgold’s Tar’s Beach (1991) picture book as a child and interviewed the artist at her home in New Jersey in 2019, reflects on her most enduring lessons.
In the news: You may know John Lithgow from the cult comedy sitcom 3rd Rock From the Sun or as Winston Churchill in The Crown, but more recently, you can find him at the pottery wheel. The 78-year-old actor shares his creative journey to deepen his art education in a heartwarming new PBS special. Also, artists show support for students at the City College of New York’s Gaza solidarity encampment; dispatches from the New York Art Book Fair and the Photography Show; and the Mona Lisa, dubbed the “most underwhelming” viewing experience at the Louvre, could be getting her very own gallery.
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| | | The late artist fiercely reckoned with the status quo, leaving the art world better than she found it through a rich legacy of Black feminist activism and artmaking. | Jasmine Weber |
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| | | | Even the world’s most proliferated images appear novel when they're blown up on glossy paper at the Photography Show presented by AIPAD. | Elaine Velie |
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SPONSORED | | | | What Happened showcases Eisenman’s ability to take on contemporary events with a style, vision, and anarchic sense of humor entirely her own. | Learn more |
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| | | This year’s show is an imaginative and openly political space that flies in the face of the commercial book sphere. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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| | | | Power concedes nothing without a demand, and the tireless efforts of the Disability Arts Movement deserve both recognition and celebration. | AX Mina |
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| | | Textile techniques serve as medium and metaphor in Unravel at the Barbican Centre, conveying possibilities for art and resistance. | Julie Schneider |
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| | | Gateway to the South is cemented firmly in the South and within the artist’s own ancestry. | Leia Genis |
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| | | Curtis’s work is sensitive to matriarchal lineage: the gory miracle of birth, the fecundity of death, generational divide and transmission. | Brecht Wright Gander |
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