Today in the news: Art-world provocateur Maurizio Cattelan is accused of copying another artist’s work (not for the first time), the pseudo-hippie Burning Man festival is criticized for removing a pro-Palestinian artwork from its website, and a giant gorilla sculpture, arguably the world’s largest, lands in Connecticut. In other stories: A queer perspective on the TEFAF art fair in New York, Melvin Way’s enigmatic mathematical drawings, and the funniest memes about this weekend’s surprise northern lights show, which very few of us got to see.
— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
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Cattelan’s new installation of gold panels punctured by bullets resembles works that artist Anthony James has been making since 2011. | Maya Pontone
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From One Place to Another features oil paintings and acrylic studies that chart a material exploration for the artist while expanding upon his longstanding interest in issues of
migration and labor, both in the US and China. Each composition is an act of resistance against erasure grounded in Ji’s profound empathy for his subjects.
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Way’s drawings are not messages to be decoded but instead are renderings of our yearning to comprehend. | Albert Mobilio
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Eager for interpersonal exchange and viewer participation, the Detroit-based artist invites us into their candid visualizations of ancestral and personal history. | Sarah Rose Sharp
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Peer-reviewed articles explore artworks from Iran, Iraq, France, Germany, and Brazil. Learn more
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Several works on display in this year’s iteration of the fair, both ancient and modern, stand out for their homoeroticism and queer aesthetics. | Daniel Larkin
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The festival took down the artwork submission after a petition said its title, “From the River to the Sea,” was antisemitic. | Elaine Velie
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Children have been joyously climbing the 5,000-pound sculpture, which has been reclining on the grounds of Greenwich’s Bruce Museum since Earth Day. | Aaron Short
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For every jaw-dropping image taken by an amateur iPhone photographer who witnessed the aurora borealis, there’s a meme by someone who hasn’t. | Rhea Nayyar
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