This week we saw unsettling images of police in riot gear arresting and brutalizing pro-Palestinian students who’d set up encampments on dozens of American college campuses. Our reporters were at Columbia University, CUNY, the New School, the School of Visual Arts, UCLA, USC, and other campuses to record the facts on the ground.

Meanwhile, art fair season kicked off in New York. Read our contributors’ impressions from Frieze, NADA, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and more.

Also this week: Charley Burlock explains why the Vessel in Hudson Yards should remain closed for good, Christine Hume tells the story of a work about miscarriage that was too much for the art world in 1974, and former Hyperallergic editor Jasmine Weber remembers Faith Ringgold, whom she met in the last years of her life.

There’s that and more, including a report on the Vatican’s peculiar pavilion at a functioning women’s prison in Venice, our monthly NY and LA exhibition guides, and David Carrier's review of a new Keith Haring that leaves much to desire. Enjoy your weekend!

— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor

Radiant is a bountiful source of information about the late queer artist’s life and career, but it says oddly little about his art and its enduring legacy.

• Over 100 people were arrested at Columbia University after students took over Hamilton Hall and renamed it in honor of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed by Israeli forces.

• Earlier on April 30, activists marched across Manhattan in support of students calling for university divestment from Israeli military interests. 

• More than 50 protesters rallied in support of students staging a sit-in for Gaza at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.

• Multicolored tents, protest art, and an enormous display of hand-painted canvas banners express CUNY student and faculty support for Palestine.
  

• Amid aggressive escalations at UCLA and arrests at USC, students protesters across Los Angeles continue to invoke the artistic legacy of radical activism.

Further reading: Who Is the Cartoon Child Seen on Palestinian Protest Signs? and Water Jug Goes Viral as Symbol of Gaza Solidarity Student Encampments 

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The late artist fiercely reckoned with the status quo, leaving the art world better than she found it through a rich legacy of Black feminist activism and artmaking.

In 1974, the San Francisco Art Institute isolated Joanne Leonard’s series Journal of a Miscarriage from the rest of the works in her solo show. Has anything changed since?

It’s time to acknowledge the Hudson Yards staircase sculpture for what it has become: a memorial.

Vibrant colors and fantastical creatures are in abundance in shows by Sanam Khatibi, Julia Bland, Claude Lawrence, Annette Wehrhahn, and others.

Tucked away in a garage in Brooklyn, the colorful art space is one of the only galleries in the city devoted to the underappreciated medium.

Arlene Shechet’s muscular ceramics, Z. Cecilia Lu’s monstrous-yet-heartwarming assemblages, Lother Osterburg’s lonely sculptures, and more.

The East Asian art of paper cutting, drawings inspired by Brazilian woodworking, and cunty ceramics are among the standouts of a mostly uninspiring affair.

Read also: Latin American Galleries Inject Vibrancy into Frieze New York by Ela Bittencourt

Sci-fi, absurdism, and surrealism shine in this show, where the best works rely on pure imagination.

The special attention to women artists highlights the importance of intersectional representation in the fight for inclusion.

Con i miei occhi (With my eyes), staged in a women’s prison, preaches visibility but operates on secrecy.

The Venice Biennale’s Polish and Russian pavilions are both showing work by foreign countries, but their intentions and results couldn’t be more different.

Power concedes nothing without a demand, and the tireless efforts of the Disability Arts Movement deserve both recognition and celebration.

• SMFA at Tufts University Presents Pulling Teeth and Jumping Rope

• Nadya Tolonnikova Headlines American Folk Art Museum Benefit Event

• RISD’s Advanced Program Online Now Enrolling for Summer 2024

Kwame Brathwaite’s singular photography, Jackie Amézquita’s “soil paintings,” Sanaa Gateja’s paper beadwork, ancient pottery, and more.

This week, new US census categories, a dispatch from an art-framing shop, university crackdowns on student protesters, silly TikTok recipes, and much more.

Residencies, grants, open calls, and jobs from The Bennett Prize, Ucross, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.

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