December 15, 2022
Good morning. 🌧️ Shoutout to Morocco's soccer team for making history as the first African and Arab team to make it to the semi-finals in the men's World Cup. They gave France, the defending champion, a good fight before losing 2-0 yesterday.
In today's news, a study finds that less than 10% of creatives in the United Kingdom come from working-class backgrounds. And that you're four times more likely to be in a creative job if you come from a higher middle-class family. Okay, it may not be surprising but it's still depressing, and wrong.
Also today, Nicolás De Jesús's remarkable etchings on amate paper, paintings made with wildfire ash, and a scorching review of a new documentary about the male gaze, among other stories.
— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
The Stirring Political Etchings of Nicolás De Jesús
The Mexican artist’s works reveal the radical possibilities of an indigenous sensibility charged with a keen awareness of politics and art history. | Faye Hirsch
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
An artist sketching at Tate Britain (via Flickr)
A new study making waves in the UK finds that people from low-income backgrounds are less likely to become artists — but that’s always been the case.
“Overall, people from the higher middle classes are four times more likely to be in a creative job than people from the working class, and this hasn’t changed over 40 years,” Andrew Miles of the University of Manchester, lead author of the paper, told Hyperallergic.
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LATEST IN ART
Murals in LA Lift the Voices of Iranian Protesters
Murals by Iranian-American artists across the city are inescapable reminders of the regime’s ongoing brutality. | Matt Stromberg
Wildfire Ash as a Medium
Meet the artists who use ash and residue from natural disasters to send an urgent message about the environmental calamity unfolding before us. | Scotti Hill
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FILM & DOCUMENTARY
Six Films That Plumb the Possibilities of Prison Abolition
The shorts will be screened as part of XO & Struggle: An Evening of Abolitionist Cinema at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, New York. | Elaine Velie
Is There Anything Left to Say About the Male Gaze?
Nina Menkes’s Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power wants to join the ongoing conversation about gender and film. The trouble is that it has nothing new to say. | Sophia Stewart
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IN MEMORIAM
Angelo Badalamenti (1937–2022)
Composer known for Twin Peaks theme | New York Times
Daniel Brush (1947–2022)
Painter, sculptor, and jeweler | Washington Post
Judith Lauand (1922–2022)
Brazilian modernist painter | Artnews
Lee Lorenz (1932–2022)
New Yorker cartoon editor | New York Times
