February 17, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. ☁️ Today, writer Paddy Johnson starts an advice column for artists and arts professionals, news co-editor Valentina Di Liscia asks gallerists about the recent move of some spaces from New York to Los Angeles, and curator Dan Cameron, the fourth Emily H. Tremaine Journalism for Curators fellow, writes about three decades of traveling to visit artists on a Chilean island.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
The Compelling Curatorial Allure of a Chilean Island and its Artists
Here I am on this island many thousands of miles away, in pursuit of something that compels me to return over and over again, and to continue dreaming of a truly marvelous future art exhibition that I may never end up organizing. | Dan Cameron
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Fable for Tomorrow: A Survey of Works by Wendy Coburn at Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto
The first career survey of Wendy Coburn’s artwork, exploring representations of gender, sexualities, material culture, and human-animal relations, opens February 16. Learn more.
LATEST NEWS
Left to right: Robert Henri's "Irish Girl" (1927) and "Patience Serious" (1915) (courtesy Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens and the Cincinnati Art Museum, bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Wichgar)
The Cincinnati Art Museum will lend the Huntington in Los Angeles a Robert Henri painting after a Super Bowl betting loss.
As New York galleries head West, some point out that this seemingly zeitgeisty shift is nothing new in the art world.
- Over 1,200 items from the collection of the late British space journalist Tim Furniss head to auction.
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Weisman Museum of Art Presents Highlights From the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection
An exhibition at Pepperdine University in Malibu chronicles the achievements and contributions of African Americans over the last five centuries. Learn more.
ART & FILM
Memories of a Refugee Camp Inspire a Graphic Designer
Amir Berbić created artworks that draw on his childhood in a Danish refugee camp, memories that counter the hostile rhetoric surrounding refugees. | Allison Conner
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Jennie C. Jones to Present 2022 Wolgin Lecture at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
The works of this visual and sonic artist — neither paintings nor sculptures — engage viewers in multiple sensory and physical ways. Learn more.
Alec Soth Mines the Poetic Possibility of Photographs
Soth's art is motivated less by the need for cohesion than by attentiveness to a moment that seems full of poetic possibility. | Zach Ritter
Amidst Renovations, the Chelsea Hotel Dreams of Its Old Self
The documentary Dreaming Walls contrasts the New York icon’s glory days with the current residents’ struggle to preserve the building. | Dan Schindel
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Boston University’s School of Visual Arts Hosts Symposium on Artist Books
Join designers, artists, educators, and publishers, including Sonel Breslav, Printed Matter’s Director of Fairs and Editions, for talks and conversations exploring artist book publishing. Learn more.
ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC
Art Problems: Is My Art Good Enough?
Are you an artist or arts professional with a burning question you'd like answered? Here's your chance. | Paddy Johnson
How Bosch Experienced his Own Kind of Hell
Bosch was the inventor of the modern Western imagining of the demonic while transcending that tradition — all because of bad weather and moldy bread. | Edward Simon
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IN MEMORIAM
Carmen Herrera (1916–2022)
Celebrated Cuban-American geometric artist | Hyperallergic
Julie Saul (1955–2022)
New York gallerist | New York Times
Betty Davis (1945–2022)
Trailblazing funk singer | Rolling Stone
