December 9, 2022
Good morning. 🌤️ Just in case you needed another example of how male-centered art history is, archaeologists who uncovered an ancient carving of a man holding his penis called it the world's oldest "narrative." Really? That's how story-telling began? I don't buy it.
Also today, a new documentary goes behind the scenes of jazz legend Thelonious Monk's testy interview with a racist French journalist, the story of a 19th-century dress made of spun glass, Required Reading, and more.
— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
The Spun-Glass Dress That Made a Splash at the World’s Fair
It took over 37 hours to pull 1,900 miles of glass filament to create the garment, now on view at the Toledo Museum of Art. | Rhea Nayyar
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This new festival at The LGBT Community Center in New York City champions radical queer art, dance, and film. Learn more.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Neolithic relief found in southeastern Turkey may illustrate humans’ changing relationship with animals. (photo by K. Akdemir, courtesy Cambridge University Press)
Depicting a man holding his penis, this 11,000-year-old wall relief may reflect humans’ changing roles during the Neolithic Revolution.
Maxwell Alexandre forces the Inhotim Institute to remove his work from a show about the Black experience, calling it “White man’s theater.”
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Bang on a Can Presents For John Cage at New York’s Jewish Museum
Attend a performance of Morton Feldman’s For John Cage in a program inspired by the current exhibition, New York: 1962-1964. Learn more.
LATEST IN ART
Caitlin MacBride Explores the Politics of Dye
In an era of fast fashion and sweatshop exploitation, the artist demonstrates how far an industry will go to keep workers out of the picture. | Billy Anania
Two Artist Friends Look to Their Roots for the Future
Both Don Ed Hardy and Laurie Steelink refuse to adhere to traditional artistic hierarchies, an attitude they have shared throughout their 30-year friendship. | Matt Stromberg
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC
Rewind & Play Pits a Musical Genius Against a Culture of Racism
An insidious racism is at play in interviewer Henri Renaud’s attempt to groom Thelonious Monk for public consumption on French television. | Anthony Hawley
Required Reading
This week, news outlets flock to TikTok, New York Times staff strikes, the problem with the phrase "late-term abortion," and was the North Pole once a forest? | Hakim Bishara and Lakshmi Rivera Amin
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TRANSITIONS
Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López were appointed co-curators of the Toronto Biennial of Art.
James Merle Thomas was appointed deputy director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
Gerhard Richter is now represented by David Zwirner Gallery.
AWARDS & ACCOLADE
Twelve Philadelphia-area artists — Daryl Kwasi Burgee, Vashti Dubois, Maori Karmael Holmes, Homer Jackson, Wit López, Roberto Lugo, Louis Massiah, Pepón Osorio, Ursula Rucker, Sinta Penyami Storms, Andrea Walls, and Yolanda Wisher — were selected for fellowships through the Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures (PCT) funding initiative.
Adriano Pedrosa was named the 2023 recipient of the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.
Veronica Ryan has won the 2022 Turner Prize.The Jerome Foundation has announced the 71 recipients of its Arts Organization Grants, focused on Minnesota and New York City programs for early career artists. A complete list of recipients can be found here.
