June 23, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ Today, NYC's last public pay phone enters a museum collection, archaeologists discover an ancient head of Hercules at the bottom of the ocean, reviews of Will Wilson, Guadalupe Rosales, Stanley Rosen, and more.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief 

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Will Wilson’s Portraits of Survivance

The New Mexico photographer and Navajo Nation citizen has devoted years to surveying the environmental injustice against his people. | Susannah Abbey

WHAT'S HAPPENING

A community iron pour at Falls Art Foundry hosted by the Speed Art Museum as part of “The Promise” workshop (photo by Brian Bohannon, courtesy the Speed Art Museum)

• Speed Art Museum hosts a community iron pour to promote collective healing and creative expression for people affected by gun violence.

• NYC’s last public pay phone finds a new permanent home at the Museum of the City of New York.

• Marine archeologists pull a colossal marble head of Hercules from the site of a historic, Roman-era Antikythera shipwreck.

IDENTITY AND SPIRITUALITY

What Does Spiritual Diversity Mean in Contemporary Art?

In From Confucius to Christ, artists from around the world touch on notions of wisdom and insecurity in Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity. | Billy Anania

A Little Corner of Heaven in East Los Angeles

Guadalupe Rosales’s East of the River is an exhibition of memory, chance, and grief, all encased in nostalgia. | Rosa Tyhurst

PUSHING MATERIAL BOUNDARIES

Stanley Rosen’s Embrace of Vulnerability

If art is regarded traditionally as an impermeable form that resists the effects of time, Rosen acknowledges and accepts their inevitable triumph. | John Yau

Enter the World of “Sonic Catering” in Flux Gourmet

Peter Strickland’s latest fetish-fixated film imagines a community of artists who turn food and cooking into soundscapes. | Cole Kronman

IN MEMORIAM

Michel David-Weill (1932-2022)
Collector and Metropolitan Museum of Art and Louvre donor | Artnews

Vivian Hewitt (1920-2022)
Major collector of Black American art | NYT

Hunter Reynolds (1959-2022)
Artist and AIDS activist | Artnews

Tim Sale (1956-2022)
Comic book artist | NYT

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FROM THE ARCHIVE

What Would It Look Like to Decolonize Cartography? A Volunteer Group Has Ideas

Founded by Jordan Engel in 2014, Decolonial Atlas is working to undo settler colonialism, one map at a time. | Billy Anania