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Happy Thursday! ☀️ Today, Mexico asks Christie’s to cancel an upcoming sale, Sally McKay and Lorna Mills collaborate on an exclusive Hyperallergic art commission, and we have your monthly art guides for New York and Los Angeles.

– Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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Our February Art Guides

Reggie Burrows Hodges, "For the Greater Good: White Ground" (image courtesy the artist and Karma, New York)

Our February art guides are here!

To break up New York’s winter slush, we’ve rounded up 10 art events worth checking out — from exhibitions, to film series, to book fairs and interdisciplinary projects.

And in Los Angeles, navigate a virtual spiral staircase, bask among outdoor blowup sculptures, listen to a 20-minute orchestral soundscape, and learn about an artist’s relationship to prosthetics.

In Other News

The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico has asked Christie’s to withdraw 30 pre-Hispanic objects from an upcoming Paris auction.
A group of Cuban artists has submitted a legal request to the National Assembly of People’s Power calling for the revocation of the mandate of Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso.
We have a sneak peek look at the Getty Foundation’s next Pacific Standard Time initiative, which will explore such themes as climate change, environmental justice, AI, science fiction, and indigenous systems of knowledge.

A New Comedy About Eviction

El Planeta, Amalia Ulman’s Transportive “Comedy About Eviction”

Ulman’s feature debut chronicles a mother-daughter pair in post-recession Spain with a restrained style and hints of amusing deception.

Kambole Campbell