February 2, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. ☁️ Today, artist Florine Stettheimer gets her first comprehensive biography, museum guards helped curate an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Billy Anania looks at the history of depicting labor organizing in a three-part series that starts today.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
The Ancient Art of Organized Labor
From Egyptian craftsmen to European textile workers, artists have always found strength in numbers. | Billy Anania
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The stunning Lingui, The Sacred Bonds. In theaters Friday.
“Gorgeous and affecting” —The Hollywood Reporter.
See Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, Chad's Best International Film submission to the 2022 Academy Awards. A tender vision of female solidarity from celebrated director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Opening Friday in New York and nationwide on February 18. A MUBI Release. Get tickets: mubi.com/lingui
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Stills from a fly-through video of The House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii from the exhibition Pompeii in Color at New York University (courtesy 3D Francesco Gabellone & Techné S.A.S)
An exhibition at New York University presents a scintillating close read on the fresco art of Pompeii’s lost villas.
A New Zealand auction house sells two glass plate negatives as NFTs and encourages the buyers to destroy the originals.
An upcoming film series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music explores the enduring resonance of Brazilian modernism.
An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society reexamines the display of controversial monuments dating back to the country’s founding.
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Four Virtual Artistic Interventions From the Jemand Society Explore Speculative Futures
To examine utopias and dystopias, artists Jeremy Bailey, Lucie Freynhagen, Sam Lavigne, and Janne Kummer stage online interventions inspired by 19th-century writer Bertha von Suttner. Learn more.
LATEST IN ART
Enter the Universe of Black Womxn Artists in the Bay Area
The Black Woman Is God, an annual showcase of Black womxn visual artists, has become a staple of Black Bay Area culture. | Faith Adiele
Dürer's Journeys Offers a Detailed Examination of the Worldly Artist
By recording unusual sights encountered throughout his travels and disseminating these via workshop practices, it’s understandable why Dürer is so prominent in art history. | Olivia McEwan
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Tyler School of Art and Architecture Selects Jova Lynne as New Gallery Director
Curator, educator, and transdisciplinary artist Jova Lynne is coming from MOCAD to lead Temple Contemporary exhibitions and public programs. Learn more.
ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC
Can an Exhibition Selected by Museum Guards Address Inequality at Museums?
Guarding the Art has the chance to become the model for how museums honor and respect the dignity of their guards moving forward. | Derek Stafford Mangus
Florine Stettheimer, Highly Original Artist, Gets Her First Comprehensive Biography
Barbara Bloemink’s thorough, engaging book is the first comprehensive biography and full reading of Stettheimer’s paintings, and gives the artist the attention she has long deserved. | Lauren Moya Ford
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