May 4, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. 🌧 Today, the best memes about this year’s Met Gala, the history of the Jewish deli, Eastern European artists shine at the Venice Biennale, and doesn’t Dorothy Podber, who shot several of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe silkscreens with a pistol, deserve credit for co-authoring the works?
We have that and a lot more, including Derek Fordjour, Woody Guthrie, Nadia Haji Omar, and a report about a union dispute at NYC’s Metrograph cinema.
— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief
The Most Memeable Looks From a Dystopian Met Gala
It was glamorous! It was glitzy! It was the end of democracy as we know it! | Sarah Rose Sharp
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IN OTHER NEWS
A visitor admires Zsófia Keresztes's project for the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, After Dreams: I Dare to Defy the Damage (photo Veronika Molnar/Hyperallergic)
- Highlights and historic firsts by Eastern European artists and curators at the Venice Biennale include sculptures by Zsófia Keresztes, Malgorzata Mirga-Tas’s Polish Pavilion transformation, and more.
- NYC’s Metrograph cinema drew backlash for canceling a Q&A with the creators of the 1979 pro-union documentary The Wobblies over concerns that it would be “co-opted by activists.”
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Office for Contemporary Art Norway Presents “The Sámi Pavilion” at the Venice Biennale
In a historic first, artists Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara, and Anders Sunna transformed the Nordic Pavilion into a celebration of the art and sovereignty of the Indigenous Sámi people. Learn more.
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration Is Now Open at the Mississippi Museum of Art
This exhibition features newly commissioned works by 12 acclaimed Black contemporary artists, including Carrie Mae Weems, Theaster Gates, and more. Learn more.
ART & MUSIC
Derek Fordjour’s LA MOCA Mural Is an “Invitation” to the Museum
“Sonic Boom,” named after a Historically Black College’s famous marching band, “will have particular resonance in communities of color,” the artist said. | Matt Stromberg
The Ceaseless Optimism of Woody Guthrie’s Activist Life
Somehow, the poisonous American anger that swirled around Guthrie never corrupted that innate creative optimism. Empathy was his reliable muse. | Tim Keane
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Shuli Sadé Uses Augmented Reality to Reveal the Birds of Battery Park City’s Waterfront
The site-specific installation “Bird’s-Eye View” celebrates Manhattan’s coastline and the wonders of migration patterns with digitally-created birds. Learn more.
New Artist-run Platform LA ESCUELA___ Offers Free Programs and Open Calls
Artists from across the Americas are collaborating on this open-access platform for radical learning and collective making in public spaces. Learn more.
MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC
The “Witch” Who Shot Andy Warhol’s Marilyns
Dorothy Podber should at least be acknowledged as the co-author of Warhol’s multi-million dollar Shot Marilyns series. | Hall W. Rockefeller
Prismatic Ground Tries to Change the Conversation on Experimental Documentary
Film programmer Inney Prakash talks to Hyperallergic about what it takes to start a new film festival solo during a pandemic. | Dan Schindel
“I’ll Have What She’s Having” Chronicles the Life of the Jewish Deli
More than simply focusing on the food, the exhibition at the Los Angeles Skirball Center illustrates how the Jewish Deli was uniquely American, tied up with political and social trends of the day. | Matt Stromberg
In Praise of Illegibility
Nadia Haji Omar’s art asks us: Can we look for the sake of looking? Or must looking always be about gaining and extraction? | John Yau
