New MLK Sculpture Is Officially a Meme

January 23, 2023

Happy Monday! 🌧️ Today, we have a review of a film at Sundance about the design duo responsible for Pink Floyd's album covers, a look at a Barbara Chase-Riboud exhibition in St. Louis, a compilation of the memes around the MLK sculpture in Boston (there's a lot), a pandemic memorial in Manhattan's Chinatown, and much more.

This week, I'll be in Athens to see art, so expect some posts on the Hyperallergic social media channels from the Greek capital.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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Along Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row, development has pushed out several art spaces during the last decade, resulting in a “manufactured” arts district. | Lynn Trimble

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

The Daily Show and hundreds on social media are roasting Hank Willis Thomas’s bronze tribute to MLK and Coretta Scott King.

Painters Jammie Holmes and José Parlá have been selected for the 2023 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship.

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FROM OUR CRITICS

Barbara Chase-Riboud Breathes Life Into Bronze

The aggressive kineticism of Futurism in Chase-Riboud's sculpture is tempered by a keen appreciation of the erotic and lyrical. | Eileen G’Sell

The Design Duo Behind Pink Floyd's Iconic Aesthetic

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) is a reasonably informative, if rather dry, look at a subject with much more potential for exploration. | Dan Schindel

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ART & COMMUNITY

As Flint’s Water Crisis Endures, the Water Remembers

In their MLK Day performance inspired by LaToya Ruby Frazier's photo series, Sister Tour explored the relationship between Black women and water. | Sarah Rose Sharp

Empty Chinatown Storefront Becomes a Community Tribute

Archive as Memorial gathers oral histories, artifacts, art installations, and other documents of AAPI experiences during the pandemic. | Taylor Michael

COMICS

My Comics Collaboration With DALL-E

I wondered: Could the AI image generator and I develop a shared, unique “voice” in our creative output? | Amaris Feland Ketchum

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