January 14, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. 🌤️ Today, a review of the Met Museum’s global Surrealism exhibition, considering Jiha Moon’s seamless merger of various artistic languages, and a coalition of Seattle Art Museum staff are calling for a boycott of the institution because they are “putting property over people.”
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
In Seattle, Staff Call for a Boycott in Response to Museum’s Response to Unhoused Community
Decolonize SAM says the museum is “putting property over people” by implementing harsh measures against the unhoused community in lieu of alternative efforts. | Amber Cortes
IN OTHER NEWS
- The Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art shuts its doors after failing to reach a compromise with 47 artists boycotting the removal of a controversial artwork by David Reeb.
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Exhilarating Dreamlands of the Unconscious at the Met Museum
Tensions between resistance to Surrealism as cultural imperialism and the embrace of it as a universalist vision of freedom unfettered run through the show. | Mark Dery
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Explore Unique Prints from Two Palms
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David Zwirner presents Unrepeated: Unique Prints from Two Palms, an exhibition of recent monoprints and monotypes produced by the visionary print studio. This selection includes works by Marina Adams, Mel Bochner, Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Carroll Dunham, Chris Ofili, Elizabeth Peyton, Dana Schutz, Stanley Whitney, and Terry Winters. Explore now.
Jiha Moon’s Artistic Breakthrough
It is precisely Moon’s openness to using any source that makes her work flamboyant, captivating, odd, funny, smart, uncanny, comically monstrous, and unsettling. And, most of all, over the top. | John Yau
Challenging the Perception that Photographs Present an Objective Vision
Imagining the photographic print as a singular art object. | Julia Curl
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Arts Faculty and Staff Positions Now Open at the George Washington University
The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design is seeking applications for full-time professors in Art History, Design, Interior Architecture, and Theatre, as well as Exhibitions staff. Learn more.
Required Reading
This week, another Benin bronze is returned to Nigeria, looking at the Black Arts Movement in the US South, Senegal's vibrant new architecture, why films are more gray, and much more. | Hrag Vartanian
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TRANSITIONS
Tiona Nekkia McClodden is now represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Lucia Nogueira is now represented by Luhring Augustine Gallery.
Kalia Brooks was named director of programs and exhibitions of NXTHVN.
Judilee Reed was named president and CEO of United States Artists.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
Taylor Johnson was named the Guggenheim Museum’s inaugural poet-in-residence, hosted in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets.
