November 22, 2022
Good morning. 🌤️ Leonardo da Vinci had a quirky side, making grotesque portraits that laid the foundation for what we know now as caricature art. Today we bring you the story of one of these portraits, which recently landed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
In other news today, Iranian artists staged a protest for women's rights at SFMOMA, reperforming an action at the Guggenheim Museum in New York last month. A real revolution is taking shape in Iran. It deserves more media attention and acts of solidarity from those of us living in other parts of the world.
We also put the spotlight on 21-year-old Diné fiber artist Tyrrell Tapaha, a sixth-generation weaver from Arizona, look into the little-known history of Texas as a hub for women abstractionists, and review a wacky pop sci-fi film set in a lesbian city in the year 2700. Let's hope that Twitter will be obsolete by then.
— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
The Largely Unknown Story of Women, Abstract Expressionism, and Texas
Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West uncovers the little-known stories of professional and creative gains in the region, and especially in the Texas Panhandle. | Lauren Moya Ford
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LATEST NEWS
Two activists kneel in front of Charles Ray's "Horse and Rider" (2014) sculpture dripping with orange paint outside of Bourse de Commerce in central Paris. (image courtesy Dernière Renovation via Flickr)
Climate activists call out government inaction, splashing orange paint on French billionaire François Pinault’s Charles Ray sculpture in Paris.
An anonymous collective unfurled protest banners at SFMOMA in an act of solidarity with Iranian protesters and “to keep the message alive.”
The National Gallery of Canada lays off four staff members, including Senior Curator of Indigenous Art Greg A. Hill.
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LATEST IN ART
Tyrrell Tapaha’s Fresh Approach to Pictorial Navajo Textiles
Diné fiber artist and sixth-generation weaver Tyrrell Tapaha expands lived experience and ideas about the future. | Erin Joyce
How Leonardo’s “Monstrous” Drawings Inspired Modern Caricature
“Grotesque Head of an Old Woman,” recently acquired by the National Gallery of Art, is one of several studies by Leonardo exploring exaggerated facial expression. | Elaine Velie
Artists’ Doomed, Inspiring Resistance to Hitler
The stories of the Red Orchestra show the power of joy, creativity, and love in the fight against the compliance, fear, and silence upon which fascism still depends. | Erin L. Thompson
FILM & MORE
Set in a Lesbian City in the Year 2700, Flaming Ears Is Queer and Campy Fun
For those up for seriously weird, naughty “cyberdyke” mayhem, this movie will likely disturb and delight. | Eileen G’Sell
Noriaki Tsuchimoto Transformed Documentary Into an Art of Compassion
Though not well known outside of Japan, Tsuchimoto honed an observational style of filmmaking similar to the cinema verité movement in the US and Europe, but years earlier. | Dan Schindel
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