November 19, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, Adam Pendleton’s massive installation at the Museum of Modern Art, taking on a conservative take on the Met Museum’s Afrofuturist room (by the person who coined the term), and US Postal Service honors a Native American Modernist with a stamp.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief 

The Frenzied Cacophony of Adam Pendleton

For the artist, history doesn’t simply settle for repeating itself but jolts forward, stammers, pauses for breath, weaves around itself. | Zoë Hopkins

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Two of five forever stamps featuring a George Morrison landscape painting, being released in 2022 (all images courtesy the United States Postal Service)

The USPS unveils a new collection of stamps honoring distinguished Ojibwe artist George Morrison, whose abstract expressionist works cracked open the formalist possibilities of Native American art.

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Sentimentality would creep into the artist's late evocations of remembered childhood scenes, as would idealization. | Michael Glover

The Double Consciousness of Being a Chinese Woman Living in America

Fei Li knows that achieving rapprochement between the world views and customs of China and America is unlikely. | John Yau

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An Archconservative Magazine Discovers Afrofuturism at the Met and Is Not Pleased

Conservative critic Gilbert T. Sewall wants to make the Met great again. | Mark Dery

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Adama Delphine Fawundu and Nadia Huggins were named Women Photographers International Archive Artists in Residence.

The Queens Museum received the inaugural award for Outstanding Museum Practices in a Time of Global Crisis by the International Committee for Museums (CIMAM).

TRANSITIONS

Essence Harden joined the California African American Museum as visual arts curator.

Jammie Holmes is now represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery.

Andrea Karnes was appointed chief curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Nora Lawrence was named artistic director and chief curator of Storm King Art Center.

René Morales was named chief curator and Jamillah James was named senior curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Peter Schlesinger is now represented by David Lewis Gallery.

Stephanie Sparling Williams was appointed curator of American Art and Kimberli Gant was named curator of modern and contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Richard William Hill was appointed senior curator of Canadian art at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where Broek Bosma was named Chief Advancement Officer and Director.

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