| This week, if you throw a stone in New York City, you'll hit some art fair or another. Frieze, NADA, Spring Break, TEFAF, Independent, and 1-54 are just a few of the fairs you can still visit this weekend. Check out our coverage below for a glimpse of the art for sale, and a sense of how the art market is doing in these unsteady times.
Meanwhile, we witnessed a lackluster Met Gala that failed to even generate funny memes. By contrast, the suspense that preceded the election of the world’s first-ever US Pope has produced some top-tier conclave memes, as you'll see below.
In Opinions, artist Damien Davis criticizes some media outlets’ framing of four major museum shows by Black artists this season — Amy Sherald at the Whitney, Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim, Jack Whitten at MoMA, and Lorna Simpson at The Met — through the narrow lens of one gallery’s dominance. It’s a must-read. In another essay, religion scholar Emma Cieslik explains how the “Pope Trump” meme is a lot more dangerous than we thought.
In a new episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian speaks with historian Sarah E. Bond about labor organizing and strikes in ancient Egypt and Rome. I recommend you buy Sarah’s new book, Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire.
Happy Mother's Day tomorrow, and enjoy your weekend! — Hakim Bishara, Managing Editor |
