March 4, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ☀️ Today, a Kremlin-friendly Oligarch steps down from the Guggenheim, Thomas Cole’s last studio, reviews of Vik Muniz, Danica Lundy, a new book about Artemisia Gentileschi, and more. 

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief 

Bits and Pieces of Our Mortality

The images in Vik Muniz's exhibition Scraps tempts that implicit human tendency to fill in the blanks, complete that which is partial, fragmentary. | Seph Rodney

WHAT'S HAPPENING

The Guggenheim Museum in New York City (left, via Flickr); Vladimir Potanin in 2018 (right, via www.kremlin.ru / Wikimedia Commons)

• Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin steps down from his role as trustee at the Guggenheim Museum as outrage grows over the invasion of Ukraine.

• An upcoming exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site will feature a selection of works left in the artist’s studio at the time of his death.

• Canadian photographer François Brunelle captures uncanny images of look-alikes from around the world.

LATEST IN ART

A "Boobs-Eye View" and Other Perspectives on the Body

In Danica Lundy's paintings it seems that I can see two places at once, inside and outside my body. | John Yau

Painting that Exhilarates the Eye and Mind

It can be tempting to compare these historical Indian paintings with familiar examples from the Euro-American canon but that would do a disservice to these artworks, which are revelatory on their own. | David Carrier

Mis/Communication Highlights Artists Examining the Intersection of Language and Power

The artists in this Stony Brook University exhibition defy many of the linguistic and cultural hierarchies that museums often perpetuate. | Anna Can

MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC

“I Will Show Your Lordship What a Woman Can Do”: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Compelling Feminist Life

Sheila Barker’s account reveals an undeniably strong character and confidence distinct from, or perhaps in conjunction with, her practical survival needs. | Olivia McEwan

Required Reading

This week, the artist representing Ukraine at the Venice Biennale speaks, Israel's Holocaust museum is embroiled in controversy allegedly trying to protect an oligarch, Ray Johnson in Chicago, the problem with queer influencer activists, and more. | Hrag Vartanian

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TRANSITIONS

Artist Richard Hunt was commissioned to create a public sculpture that will be placed outside a library on the Obama Presidential Center campus in Chicago, planned to open in 2025.

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES

Artist Tomashi Jackson is the recipient of the 2022 Roy R. Neuberger Prize awarded by the Neuberger Museum of Art.

High Museum of Art announces art scholar and curator Adrienne L. Childs as the recipient of the 2022 David C. Driskell Prize.

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