Good morning. Not every palm tree is a coconut tree, but every coconut tree is an opportunity to draw in Gen Z voters unconvinced by Kamala Harris’s prosecutorial record. The coconut tree meme, Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar explains today, is the unlikely hero helping rebrand the presidential hopeful as a “hybrid goofy wine aunt and girlboss queen in our time of utter desperation” — with a little help from Charli XCX’s “brat summer.”
Also in the headlines: John Yau on Fritz Scholder, the history of color charts, and participants’ honest impressions of this year’s Upstate Art Weekend in New York.
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The meme has quickly gone from ironic to iconic, and the Harris campaign is riding that wave like its life depends on it. | Rhea Nayyar
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Discover how a Classical vase became an artistic and commercial muse across time and place at this exhibition in Sacramento, California. Learn more
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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
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The John Rowland Mansion is now open to the public with site-specific contemporary artworks centering access and found materials. | Matt Stromberg
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Scholder, who called himself a "non-Indian Indian," refused to conform to expectations and rejected limiting definitions of his identity as Native American. | John Yau
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Three tomes give new meaning to “full color” by chronicling the visual history of color charts, swatches, palettes, and more. | Sarah Rose Sharp
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