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.
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.
Hyperallergic is the place for profound, playful, and radical writing about art wherever it's made, seen, bought, and sold. Help us keep up the work by joining as a member, and thanks so much for reading. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
|
|
|
You’re currently a free subscriber to Hyperallergic. To support our independent arts journalism, please consider joining us as a paid member. | | Become a Member |
|
|
|
| | | The Lincoln Memorial replica went viral online after peak temperatures melted the head off the 16th president’s likeness. | Maya Pontone |
|
|
|
SPONSORED | | | | Moi Aussi is uniting artists from all over the world around an unusual canvas: a pair of glasses. Learn more |
|
|
|
PORTRAITS, PORTRAITS | | | | Green? For David Attenborough? Groundbreaking. | Rhea Nayyar |
|
| | | | Now on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the painting is thought to depict Mary Ann Tritt Cassell, a mixed-race woman who lived in the 1800s. | Maya Pontone |
|
|
|
SPONSORED | | | | Pratt MFA Photography alumni explore what it means to create amid the accelerated social and technological change of the 21st century. Learn more |
|
|
|
ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | Ramberg was one of the lesser-known — but, to my mind, most exciting — artists often grouped together as the Chicago Imagists. | Lori Waxman |
|
| | | | Instead of “elder,” the 75-year-old artist, scholar, and bandleader prefers the moniker "magnificent hag." | Elaine Velie |
|
|
|
IN MEMORIAM | Richard Bawden (1936–2024)
Painter, printmaker, and designer | New English Art Club
John Everett Benson (1939–2024)
Master stone carver who worked on JFK’s grave | New York Times
Fumihiko Maki (1928–2024)
Architect known for 4 World Trade Center | New York Times
Zinno Orara (1965–2024)
Landscape and figurative painter | BlackHouse Media
Chaim Peri (1944–2024)
Artist who founded Nir Oz exhibition space | Hyperallergic
Kazuyuki Takezaki (1976–2024)
Painter and co-founder of Take Ninagawa gallery | ArtAsiaPacific
Anya Tish (1950–2024)
Founder of eponymous Houston gallery | Glasstire
Guy Warren (1921–2024)
Painter who combined landscape, abstraction, and figuration | Guardian |
|
|
|
You’re currently a free subscriber to Hyperallergic. To support our independent arts journalism, please consider joining us as a paid member. | | Become a Member |
|
|
|
Hyperallergic, 181 N 11th St, Suite 302, Brooklyn, NY 11211, United States
|
|
|
|
|
