May 13, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. ☀️ Today, 12 African American artists were commissioned to make work related to the Great Migration, a look at masks that are very environmentally friendly, and visitors to Dracula’s castle are being offered free vaccines.

Also, we just announced our new Journalism Fellowships for Curators. We’re offering five monthlong fellowships, with the support of the Emily H. Tremaine Foundation. All details in the post.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Calling All Curators! Hyperallergic Is Offering Five Journalism Fellowships for Curators

With the support of the Emily H. Tremaine Foundation, Hyperallergic is offering five monthlong journalism fellowships for curators that each include a grant of $5,000.

The Story Behind One of the Oldest Art Glass Studios in the US

In 124 years, Judson Studios has gone from designing windows for homes and churches to working with contemporary artists who are expanding the possibilities of glass.

Matt Stromberg

What's Happening

(images courtesy the artists, MMA, and BMA)

12 African American artists have been commissioned to make work ruminating on the Great Migration for an exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
The Bran Castle in Romania, believed to have been the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, has been transformed into a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination center.
Graphic designer Marianne de Groot-Pons created biodegradable face masks embedded with flower seeds that should spring up anywhere the masks may be discarded.

How Lee Miller Cast Her Surrealist Eye on British Vogue

Miller didn’t plan to photograph gowns and handbags as bombs rained from London’s skies.

Karen Chernick

How a New Nigerian Museum Can Help Repatriate the Benin Bronzes

Nigeria’s business leaders will have to give generously; politicians will have to put rivalries aside; and contemporary artists will have to embrace the project.

Barnaby Phillips

Comics Archive

Don’t Miss This Spring’s Hottest Greens

The world turns into a bouquet of color, and we get to enjoy all of it.

Steven Weinberg