Mar 10, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. ☀️ Today, President Biden’s stimulus bill includes $470M for the arts, how a tweet led the FBI to repatriate an artwork housed at the Dallas Museum of Art, and reviews of The Bronx Comes to Los Angeles and Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Traverse Miles and Millennia From Home at Asia Week New York

As Princeton University Art Museum curator Zoe S. Kwok explains, the week ranks as “the most important annual event in Asian art outside of Asia.”

Lisa Yin Zhang

What's Happening

The looted status of a Nepalese sculpture in the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection has been well documented since the 1980s, but it took an art crime professor’s 2019 tweet for the FBI and museum to repatriate the religious artifact.
Biden’s stimulus bill includes a total of $470 million in relief to arts and cultural organizations, far exceeding the respective $75 million allocated to the NEA and NEH in the Trump administration’s 2020 CARES Act.

Virtual Film Festivals

The Latest French Films, From Trans Stories to a Travelogue With a Donkey

The virtual 26th edition of Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema presents both the latest popular and arthouse movies from France.

Dan Schindel

How Film Festivals Have Managed the Shift to Virtual

“I think this is going to become much more normal.” Workers at TIFF, NYFF, and Sundance reflect on a year of reduced in-person events and streaming premieres.

Hannah Woodhead

Latest Reviews

40 Years Later, Rigoberto Torres and John Ahearn Are Still Making Life Casts of Bronx Residents

The Bronx Comes to Los Angeles presents Ahearn’s and Torres’s works side by side, and it is ultimately Torres’s sculptures that stand out.

Elisa Wouk Almino

"Grief and Grievance" Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence

A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent.

Rachell Morillo

Podcast

Lindsay Howard Talks About the Burgeoning Market for NFTs

As head of the Foundation, one of the prominent platforms selling NFTs today, Howard has taken a more curated approach to the emerging field.

Hrag Vartanian

From the Store

Louise Bourgeois "Spirals" Teacup & Saucer

Add an artful twist to your daily tea respite with this ceramic teacup and saucer featuring details from Louise Bourgeois’s woodcut series Spirals.

Check out our Louise Bourgeois collection for more contemplative patterns!