For anyone who couldn’t attend artist Rashaad Newsome’s 2022 performance at the Park Avenue Armory, “Assembly,” his film based on the performance, is a sight to behold.
For anyone who couldn’t attend artist Rashaad Newsome’s 2022 performance at the Park Avenue Armory, Assembly, his film based on the performance, is a sight to behold. Featuring dancers, digital projections, and an AI character, it is a work of art that will linger in your mind, as described in Damien Davis’s review. Something else that’s sure to stay in your mind for a while is the story of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, an artist and “Cuba’s most famous political prisoner.” Artist and scholar Coco Fusco spoke with Otero Alcántara about the plight of political prisoners in Cuba in a must-read story. In alarming news, crypto-mogul Justin Sun, who gained notoriety for buying Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana last year, has announced plans to purchase $100 million worth of Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency. Let’s hope some overpriced art distracts him before the sale goes through. Yale University Art Gallery withdrew its applications for NEH and NEA funding for an exhibition and is opting to self-fund the show instead, citing Trump’s DEI bans. Meanwhile, Photodom, a Black-owned film shop and community hub founded in 2014, gets a new home in Bushwick. — Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor | | |
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| | His film Assembly is more than just documentation of a performance. It’s a kind of communion. | Damien Davis |
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SPONSORED | | | | With a focus on Parisian views and architecture, the artist’s new series is on view in Menlo Park, California, through August 26. Learn more |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | My Dialogues With a Political Prisoner “It feels like the world has forgotten about us,” said artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who recently served four years of his sentence in a maximum-security Cuban prison. | Coco Fusco |
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| | Black-Owned Film Shop Photodom Gets a New Home in Bushwick The beloved store’s expanded ground-floor location marks a major milestone for Brooklyn’s analog photography community. | Sadaf Padder |
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IN MEMORIAM | David Adickes (1927–2025)
Large-scale Modernist sculptor and museum | Houston Chronicle
Guillaume Bijl (1946–2025)
Belgian conceptual and installation artist | Documenta
Barbara Brotherton (1950–2025)
Curator of Native American art | Seattle Art Museum
Brian Clarke (1953–2025)
British stained-glass artist | Times
Peter Hutchinson (1930–2025)
British-American Land Art pioneer | Provincetown Independent
Thomas Neurath (1940–2025)
British art book publisher | Guardian
Thornton Willis (1936–2025)
Abstract New York School painter | New York Times
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