In today’s tragicomic news, unusually high temperatures in Washington, DC, melt a wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial statue, liquifying Honest Abe’s head. What a perfect metaphor for the soaring climate crisis and the disintegration of American democracy.
In other developments, artist Jonathan Yeo, notorious for his red-washed portrait of King Charles, is back with another celebrity painting. This time it’s a green-washed portrait of BBC nature film presenter David Attenborough.A press photo shows Sir Attenborough sitting for the artist, completely oblivious to how his likeness is being rendered.
Also today: Lori Waxman on Chicago Imagist Christina Ramberg, Elaine Velie interviews badass punk rock singer, artist, and scholar Kay Tuner for our Pride series, and a look at what might be the first known portrait commissioned by a formerly enslaved Black person in the US.
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