February 24, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ Today, a museum director in the UK has been fired following a pressure campaign by a pro-Israel group, LaGuardia airport’s latest terminal will be filled with work by six prominent contemporary artists, and the final Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellow, Jeremy Dennis, has published his first article about Indigenous resilience and futurism on Long Island. Thanks to everyone who has been attending our events with the Fellows. Our final event will be this coming Tuesday, March 1.

Today's newsletter also features the return of A View from the Easel. Please consider contributing a photo of your own studio and encourage your friends to do the same. We welcome ALL studios (even if it’s just your laptop). Find more information about contributing in the post.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief 

Indigenous Resilience and Futurism in The Hamptons

In addition to predicting the coming of colonization, environmental destruction, and capitalism, Indigenous artists have also envisioned a world where these things never happened. | Jeremy Dennis

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Matthew Teitelbaum, director at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Issa Konfourou, permanent representative of Mali to the UN, with the objects being transferred back to the Republic of Mali on February 8, 2022. (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

• Two ancient Djenné terracotta figurines, believed to be illicitly removed and trafficked in the 1980s, will return to Mali.

• La Guardia Airport’s revamped Terminal C will feature new, site-specific artworks by six New York artists.

• The University of Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery director has been reportedly forced out of his job following a pressure campaign by a pro-Israel group.

ART & FILM

David Diao's Long Search for Painting's Many Identities

One key to understanding Diao’s art is that he has long worked with a reductive geometric vocabulary, while always pushing back against any of postmodernism’s reductive narratives. | John Yau

A View from the Easel

This week, artist studios in North Carolina, Illinois, Maryland, and Caen, France. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

‘You Should Feel Disturbed’ — Talking to the Directors of Attica

In the wake of the film’s nomination for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry speak to Hyperallergic about the uprising’s ongoing relevance. | Dan Schindel

ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC

How Chronicling Street Art Works Against a Culture of Commodification

This culture industry perfects the mechanisms for the wholesale destruction of art not beholden to establishment narratives. | Yoav Litvin

What Did the Onset of the Age of the Mass Shooting Mean to Americans?

Colette Brooks demonstrates how history unites us in both our private and public lives. | Melissa Holbrook Pierson

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