In the darkness that is this moment, there are spots of light.
Good morning. In the darkness that is this moment, there are spots of light. There’s the Dutch street artist who painted the side of a building with a massive portrait of an embarrassed Lady Liberty, a poignant challenge to Trump’s inhumane immigration policies. There’s the Illinois community that memorialized a Palestinian child killed in a hate crime with a beautiful and timeless monument. All stories you can read in today’s edition. And there are, of course, Hilma af Klint’s flowers. As Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad writes today, the artist’s botanical drawings now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York “connect af Klint’s spirit realm not only with her earthly one, but with our own lives.” As we all look for meaning to continue giving sense to our lives, they “illuminate some semblance of utopianism that’s still available to humankind.”
Read her review, play our monthly art crossword, and catch up on more below. — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | | |
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| | Her Nature Studies invoke the promise of something greater, a direct line from the material world to the spiritual experience that art is presumed to offer. | Natalie Haddad |
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SPONSORED | | | Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images advances new research and preservation efforts. On view at ICA Philadelphia from July 12 through December 7. Learn more |
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| | Edward Burtynsky's photographs once offered a prescient vision of large-scale anthropogenic changes; now, they feel more and more like a pretext for aesthetic dazzle. | Louis Bury |
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| | | Wadee Alfayoumi, who was murdered by his family’s landlord in 2023 in an anti-Muslim hate crime, is remembered in a new sculpture in his hometown. | Maya Pontone |
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SPONSORED | | | | Double Take brings together the culminating work of third-year MFA candidates at the Bard Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery in Red Hook, New York, on July 11–20. Learn more |
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| | Dutch street artist Judith de Leeuw said she created the piece in response to the United States’s cruel immigration policies. | Isa Farfan |
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| | | What do Henri Matisse, Hilma af Klint, and the Venice Biennale have in common? | Natan Last |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | In The Other Side, Jennifer Higgie pays tribute to celebrated and lesser-known women artists whose work intersected with the occult. | AX Mina |
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