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Good morning. ☁️ Today, a Frida Kahlo musical is coming to Broadway (god help us), Leonora Carrington’s little-known foray into Jewish mysticism, the Borscht Beat radio show, and is it time to declare Donatello queer?
There's more, including this week's Required Reading and a review of Josefina Auslender's remarkable paintings, which address the cruelties of Argentina's Dirty War.
— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief
Leonora Carrington’s Little-Known Explorations of Jewish Mysticism
In her designs for S. Ansky’s play The Dybbuk, the artist blends various visual and mythological strands of her European background with those of her adopted home of Mexico. | Matt Stromberg
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A forthcoming Broadway musical seeks to honor Frida Kahlo's life in a new light.
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Donatello's Queer Glamour
The unorthodox bodies that Donatello sculpted seem intertwined with the unorthodox relationship he developed between his own body and the bodies of other queer men. | Daniel Larkin
Josefina Auslender's Portraits of Argentina's Dirty War
Auslender's art brings personal associations and a sense of intimacy to images of torture based on the crimes of Argentina's ruling junta from 1974 to 1983. | Carl Little
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Dancing to the Borscht Beat
Aaron Bendich draws from his massive collection of Yiddish records to share an hour of otherwise hidden music on his radio show Borscht Beat. Recently, he also launched an independent Yiddish record label. | Isabella Segalovich
Required Reading
This week, criticism of New York's proposed "feminist jail," activists are losing steam, cultural appropriation parodies on TikTok, and more. | Hakim Bishara
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Ellen Archer and Richard Zinman were appointed board members at the Katonah Museum of Art.
Gowri Natarajan Sharma was appointed president of the Dallas Museum’s board, becoming the first person of color in the role.
Sarah Faux is now represented by Hales Gallery.
Adriana Zavala was appointed Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.
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The Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation have announced the recipients of the 2022 Disability Futures Fellowship. A complete list can be found here.
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An Indigenous Perspective on Frida Kahlo
In both her art and personal style, Kahlo promoted the construction of a mythologized Indianness at the expense of Indigenous people. | Joanna Garcia Cheran
