May 30, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. ⛈ Today, workers at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures launch a union drive, descendants of people who were enslaved by former US President James Madison take a stake in his estate, and reviews of Terry Adkins, Mary Beth Edelson, and Sharona Franklin.
— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief
Terry Adkins's Objects of Wonder
An exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery underscores not only how engaging and innovative, but also influential and visionary Adkins really was, and remains. | Gregory Volk
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WHAT’S HAPPENING
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (photo by Joshua White; JWPictures / © Academy Museum Foundation; courtesy Academy Museum)
The CEO of the Montpelier estate in Virginia resigns after the museum and educational center’s board of directors finally achieved parity with the descendants of people enslaved on the former plantation.
Months after opening, workers at Los Angeles’s Academy Museum move to unionize.
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Grassroots and Indigenous Environmental Leaders Convene for Land Circle Activation in Philadelphia
Organizers, artists, and land practitioners are holding public events at Iglesias Garden in a hub space supported by the Climate Justice Initiative, a project of Mural Arts Philadelphia. Learn more.
LATEST REVIEWS
A Meditation on Biotech’s Cycles of Healing and Harm
Sharona Franklin’s artwork is a celebration and commemoration of what is gained and lost with scientific advances that result in biohazardous waste. | Leah Triplett Harrington
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NOMA Presents Katherine Choy: Radical Potter in 1950s New Orleans
This exhibition explores the work and short-but-impactful life of the groundbreaking ceramic artist. Now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Learn more.
Mary Beth Edelson Celebrated the Goddess Within
Edelson followed the hunch that if women artists didn’t create this history for themselves, no one would. | Ela Bittencourt
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