April 6, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌧️ Today, we report from Warsaw about how the local Museum of Modern Art has transformed itself to help Ukrainian refugees, London’s National Gallery has renamed a well-known pastel by Edgar Degas the “Ukrainian Dancers,” and there’s a company that wants to bring holograms into every home.

And join us on Twitter Spaces this Thursday, April 7, at 12 pm EDT for a chat with arts administrator and critic Paddy Johnson about the struggles for artists and other people in the arts to manage their time. In the meantime, check out her latest advice article on the topic.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief 

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How Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art Transformed Itself to Aid Ukrainian Refugees

From supplying medicines and food to organizing poetry readings and stress relief workshops, the museum has shifted its focus from art to humanitarian aid. | Peter Liakhov and Tamuna Chkareuli

IN OTHER NEWS

Allyson Allen, “#BLACKLIVESMATTER” (2016). The work was removed from Wells Fargo’s Laguna Beach branch after customers complained that it was “too aggressive.”

• Community Art Project cuts ties with a Wells Fargo branch in Laguna Beach after the bank removed Black Lives Matter-themed quilts from display.

• The Guggenheim, the MoMA, and the Art Institute of Chicago are among the many US museums that have benefited from Kremlin-backed wealth.

• London’s National Gallery renames Edgar Degas’s “Russian Dancers” as “Ukrainian Dancers” as calls to rename the work have intensified.

• A new Environmental Arts Grant will distribute awards up to $20,000 to women-identifying artists creating environmental public art projects.

• The company Proto wants to bring holograms into every home.

ART & MORE

Art Problems: How Do I Manage My Time?

How is it I’m busy all the time but I don’t have time to do what is important? | Paddy Johnson

The Prescient Politics of a Seminal Conceptual Photographer 

Nearly a decade after his death in 2013, Phel Steinmetz’s attention to the effects of capitalism on the environment can be recognized as both political and prescient. | Natalie Haddad

Paris+ by Art Basel Fails Even as it Starts

The leadership of Paris+ and its 10-dealer-strong advisory board have oddly forgotten to include a single person of color. | Farah Abdessamad

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