Good morning. Snakes don’t always have positive connotations, but as AX Mina writes, an annual exhibition at the Abrons Art Center finds hope in the Year of the Wood Snake. For From Chinatown, With Love, artists teamed up with area businesses to create a community of care symbolically bound by the serpent. In other reviews, Nancy Zastudil considers the merits of nostalgia in Zoë Zimmerman’s photography, as she delves into a historic house in Taos. In news, Staff Reporters Isa Farfan and Rhea Nayyar take a look at protest art for Gaza from the past 15 months. Farfan also profiles artist Nicolás González-Medina, whose woodblock prints foreground the fight for immigrant rights, while Maya Pontone covers a brazen ancient jewelry heist at a Netherlands museum. Sadly, the jewelry may already be melted down, according to art crime scholar and Hyperallergic contributor Erin L. Thompson. And Jorge S. Arango says goodbye to Maine photographer Barbara Morris Goodbody, who passed away on January 13 at age 88. There’s lots more to read, including Jenna Richards and Michelle Amos’s incredible story of the Little Loomhouse, a thriving woman-centric textile community in Kentucky. The essay is the second in our series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft. Happy reading! — Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor
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