Good morning! Today in the news: An artist paints portraits of American peace activists, 14 repatriated Yemeni artifacts are sent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art amid the ongoing civil war, and a community-curated blockchain art show that might surprise you comes to Queens.
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September 26, 2024

Good morning! Today in the news: An artist paints portraits of American peace activists, 14 repatriated Yemeni artifacts are sent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art amid the ongoing civil war, and a community-curated blockchain art show that might surprise you comes to Queens.

Also today, Senior Editor Hakim Bishara muses on a recent encounter with the Cubist sculptures created by artist Lee Bul for The Met’s facade commission. Elsewhere in Manhattan, Natalie Weiss visits an exhibition of Dorothea Tanning's otherworldly collages of tissue, ink, and fabric scraps, largely assembled toward the end of her career.

Read on for more essential stories, including but not limited to Moo Deng’s art historical predecessors — the hippos who waddled so she could zoom. And we’re excited to invite you to our 15th-anniversary celebration on October 9 at Brooklyn’s Red Pavilion. Grab your tickets to a night of feasting, festivities, drag performances, and more. We hope to see you there!

— Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor

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Lee Bul’s Synthetic Angels of History

Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections. | Hakim Bishara

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