July 6, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, our staff reporter Elaine Velie looks into how NYC Mayor Eric Adams's education budget cuts are affecting the work of art teachers, police officials in Virginia admit to tear-gassing peaceful protesters at a confederate memorial, and David Lynch’s Lost Highway returns to theaters with 4K restoration.

There's more: An artist revives the lost tradition of Jewish papercuts; a show about France's pioneering women artists; studio visits in Karachi, Pakistan, and more.

Also, our monthly Opportunities column is out with grants, open calls, residencies, fellowships, and more. Who knows, it might take your life in a totally new direction.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief 

The Pioneering Feminists of French Art

Pioneers at Paris’s Musée du Luxembourg places a particular emphasis on women artists who challenged and subverted conventional norms of gender presentation, sexuality, motherhood, and race. | Anna Souter

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Students in an art class at MS 821 Sunset Park Prep in Brooklyn (photo by and courtesy Olivia Swisher)

• NYC Mayor Eric Adams slashes school funding by over $200 million, jeopardizing art departments across the city.

• The Richmond Police Department admits to using tear gas on peaceful protesters near the Robert E. Lee statue in 2020.

WORKING WITH PAPER

Reviving the Lost Craft of Jewish Papercuts

Anna Kronick is one of very few Judaic paper cutters practicing today, with a highly contemporary body of work that breathes new life into the sacred tradition. | Isa Segalovich

Tanoa Sasraku’s Enigmatic "Earth Photos"

In finding new ways to read and map landscapes, Tanoa Sasraku disrupts our expectations of the rural and opens up latent memories, mythologies, and energies. | Anna Souter

ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC

Inside the Wondrous Studios of Three Pakistani Artists

Contemporary artist studios in Karachi prioritize pragmatism; many resist a traditional understanding of spaces with singular purposes. | Nageen Shaikh

How David Lynch Found His Late Style in Lost Highway

A 4K restoration of the film offers a new chance to untangle its uneasily ambiguous, highly bifurcated plot. | Cole Kronman

Opportunities in July 2022

From grants, open calls, and commissions to residencies, fellowships, and workshops, our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. 

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