May 12, 2023
Good morning. 🌤️ Today, our writers bring us impressions and highlights from New York's Spring Break and Future art fairs. There's more on the way, with several other art fairs opening across the city this month.
I would also like to highlight a review by Erin L. Thompson (aka the "art crime professor") and novelist M. T. Anderson about the work of artist Tsherin Sherpa.
There's much more, including the controversial Manet nude visiting the US for the first time, an Iraqi museum's plans to reopen after decades of destruction and looting, and Required Reading.
— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
Tsherin Sherpa's "Corrupted" Thangka Art
In Sherpa's art, Tibet and California, thangka and pop art, Buddha and Mickey Mouse mingle and morph to create a new visual language. | Erin L. Thompson and M. T. Anderson
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LATEST NEWS
Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” will be shown in the US for the first time as part of the upcoming Manet/Degas exhibition at the Met Museum.
Officials unveil long-awaited plans for the restoration of Iraq's Mosul Cultural Museum, which is slated to reopen in 2026.
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ART FAIR SLAYS & STANDOUTS
Sculpture Slays at Spring Break’s “Surprise” Show
The show returns to its original space at a Catholic school in Nolita for a 10-day, salon-style exhibition. | Rhea Nayyar
Future Art Fair Is Officially on the Map
The show does away with one of the worst aspects of art fairs: galleries displaying their loudest works in an ever-escalating bidding war. | Elaine Velie
REVIEWS & MORE
What Survivance Means for Indigenous Artists
Speaking with Light addresses an Indigenous audience with a subtler message: we are now in the process of reclaiming our own representation. | Stacy J. Platt
Curtis Cuffie's Precarious Life and Art
He embraced the uncertainty of his environs, knowingly erecting his assemblage sculptures in areas subject to police raids. | Irini Zervas
Required Reading
This week, social media sleuthing reaches new heights, coronation fashion, and did a journalist fabricate an MLK quote on Malcolm X? | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
IN OUR STORE
“Ode À La Bièvre” Coaster Set x Louise Bourgeois
Let art be the guaranty of your sanity as you save your books and furniture from ring stains with these corkboard coasters, which feature designs from Louise Bourgeois’s fabric book Ode À La Bièvre.
Shop more art-inspired home goods!
TRANSITIONS
Connie Butler was appointed director of MoMA PS1. Read more at Hyperallergic.
Artist David Huffman is now jointly represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery and Casey Kaplan Gallery.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
Recipients of the 2023 Art Mamas Residencies at Stoneleaf include Haimy Assefa, Nakeya Brown, Andria Lo, and Koyoltzintli.
Illustrator Mona Chalabi was among this year's Pulitzer Prize winners. For a complete list of recipients, see here.
Artist Julia Gutman was awarded the $100,000 Archibald Prize, which recognizes the best portrait painted by an Australian resident.
This year’s John S. and James L. Foundation 2023 Knight Arts + Tech Fellows are American Artist, Kara Güt, Leo Castañeda, Marlena Myles, and The Institute of Queer Ecology.
