December 20, 2022
Good morning. 🌤️ Let us start with some positive news: The art nonprofit Artadia, which distributes grants to artists across the United States, increased its cash awards by $5,000 to meet inflation. In a rare move, the organization is also raising the amount retroactively for recent recipients. Kudos to them.
The next story is disturbing, and it's about photography curator and artist Efrem Zelony-Mindell who was arrested last week on charges of attempted child molestation.
Also today, John Yau on Xylor Jane’s meticulously crafted grid paintings, Anna Souter on a Carolee Schneemann retrospective in London, and Sarah Rose Sharp on the pleasure of landing on an excellent exhibition catalogue.
— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
In Praise of the Exhibition Catalogue
Shary Boyle’s Outside the Palace of Me exhibition catalogue provides viewers with experiences that an in-person visit cannot. | Lauren Moya Ford
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
Artadia increases its 2023 artist’s award from $10,000 to $15,000, announcing it will also retroactively pay this year’s grant recipients.
Artist and curator Efrem Zelony-Mindell faces charges of distribution and possession of child pornography and attempted enticement of a minor.
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REVIEWS & MORE
Xylor Jane’s Cosmic Grids
The rules that structure Jane's paintings take her to some place strange and fascinating, beautiful and perplexing, mind-boggling and riveting. | John Yau
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The Broad Presents William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows
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The Pleasures and Pain of Carolee Schneemann's Body Politics
Schneemann's art actions laid bare the continuity between the female body, feminist writing, and sociopolitical acts of protest. | Anna Souter
How a Landmark Feminist Show Got Erased From Collective Memory
Art critic Lucy Lippard’s first outing as a feminist curator in 1971 has, until recently, been almost entirely absent from history. | Alexandra Schwartz
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