JulyΒ 13, 2022 β’Β View in browser
Good morning.Β π€οΈ Today, NASA releases the sharpest and most detailed telescope images ever captured of our vast, ever-expanding universe. At some point, images from deep space can start to look the same, but these ones are truly awe-inspiring. They'll leave you humbled.
Also today: AΒ White artist gets caught copying the work of a Black artist without giving any credit; an animal rights group manages to shut down a Damien Hirst installation because it killed flies (yes, flies have rights too!); art criticism's history of racism, and much more.
β Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chiefΒ
The Deepest Images of Our Universe Are Here
NASA has released photographs taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, some capturing the ancient universe dating back 13 billion years. |Β Elaine Velie
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
Left: Still fromΒ Blue, directed by Dayday (screenshot Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic viaΒ Vimeo); right: Gala KnoΜrr, βYoung Cowboyβ (2022) (used with permission from theΒ Guggenheim Museum)
Controversy erupts over Gala KnΓΆrrβs works that uncannily referenced images from a film by Black and queer multidisciplinary artist dayday.
A German museum dismantles a Damien Hirst installation displaying dead flies following complaints from the animal rights group PETA.
CRITICS & CURATORS
How Art Criticism Perpetuated Racism, According to Harold Rosenberg
The late New YorkerΒ art critic admonished the stringent "aesthetes" of his time for their blatant dismissal of the social and political contexts in which art emerges. | Debra Bricker BalkenΒ
Talking Sex With Two Film Curators
Hyperallergic talks to programmers RΓ³isΓn Tapponi and Jed Rapfogel about their Anthology Film Archives retrospective and formative erotic film experiences. | Dan Schindel
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Two Artists Brought Together by the Sublime Mysteries of Existence
Cory Feder and Diego Medinaβs collaboration in Wonder Holy LadderΒ is an antidote to the ubiquitous transactional relationships of the 21st century. | Sommer BrowningΒ
In Pursuit of Belonging
Mining the elusive nature of memory, Joeun Kim Aatchim reveals the urgent, universal desire to cling to the past despite its transience. | Catherine Yang
