August 6, 2021 • View in browser
If you didn't know that Woodstock was revived in 1999, you can watch a whole documentary on it now. Also, turns out the OG artist who splashed and dripped paint wasn't Jackson Pollock but rather a Neanderthal.
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— Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor
The Triumphant Tangles of Christina Quarles’s Canvases
In Quarles’s paintings, boundaries dissolve as the artist grinds up the fixed binaries of Black/white or male/female. | Debra Brehmer
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ART & FILM
The Sensual, Surreal, and Queer PaJaMa Collective
The collective staged erotically charged photographs of themselves and those in their artistic circles. | Cassie Packard
How BIPOC Artists Fight Canada’s Biased Art Scene
Since 1949 a combination of colonial government, the rich, and viral trends have decided how Canadian art is made. The results are unspectacular. | Elisha Lim
Looking Back at the Misbegotten Woodstock ’99 Music Festival
The HBO documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage views the event not just as one fiasco, but as an allegory for the Y2K era. | Nadine Smith
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