It’s a quiet week over here at Hyperallergic as we recover from Upstate Art Weekend. During our travels, we asked the owners and directors of art spaces in the area, as well as a few artists, about their experiences during the sprawling four-day event. Did you go and what did you think? You can let us know by replying to this email, we’d love to know your opinions (and please send us good stories if you have any).

In the city, John Yau reviewed a fascinating show at Garth Greenan Gallery of work by the biracial painter Fritz Scholder, who called himself a “non-Indian Indian,” while our film critic, Dan Schindel, caught the new Brian Eno algorithmic documentary that everyone’s been talking about. You can read their takes and find out what else is afoot in this concrete swamp below.

Buoyed by the beautiful weather, a constant stream of visitors showed up eager to learn about a cultural scene that continues to grow. | Hrag Vartanian and Maya Pontone

“[Scholder’s] refusal to conform to expectations and his rejection of limiting definitions of his identity as Native American are high watermarks in postwar American painting.... He might have been inspired by Pop art, Expressionism, and Op art, but what he did with these stylistic possibilities is very much his own.”

“It is refreshing to see a documentary about an artist that does not attempt to condense its subject’s entire life into its limited running time.... The issue here is that, while hanging out with [Brian] Eno is enjoyable enough, the lack of any decisive hand in the construction of the film meant that I didn’t feel all that compelled to return to it. These intricate feats of programming have resulted in a finished work that feels aggressively anonymous.”

• The Hispanic Society Museum and Library announced plans to launch the Goya Research Center, which will promote scholarship on the Spanish Romantic artist.

• Pro-Palestine advocates are criticizing Queens College for hosting a TV production involving a prop protest encampment following an administrative crackdown on students for their Gaza advocacy efforts earlier this year.

• Don’t forget to see these five NYC art shows before the end of the month!

• Have you ever visited Walter De Maria’s installation “New York Earth Room” on Wooster Street? It’s been there since the ’80s. [defector.com]

• Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi won more than $1 billion in federal money for NYC, which will go towards electric vehicles, clean-energy schools, a new High Line-like park in central Queens, and more. [thecity.nyc]

• It’s Restaurant Week — go feast. [ny.eater.com]
  

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