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Good morning. 🌞 Today, scholar and author Anne Anlin Cheng reflects on fashion, femininity, and beauty, Cassie Packard writes about a collection of over 4,000 rare Surrealist publications, and now you can see Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” in all its glory using this newly released 10 billion-pixel image.

– Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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The Expressive Potential of Drawing

Annie Pootoogook, “Cape Dorset Freezer” (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

With roots as old as the concept of art itself, it is difficult to imagine the medium of drawing as having much to offer in the way of innovation.

But Telling Stories: Resilience and Struggle in Contemporary Narrative Drawing, a three-woman show at the Toledo Museum of Art featuring Robyn O’Neil, Amy Cutler, and Annie Pootoogook, showcases the utility of drawing as an expressive medium.

In Other News

At-home art sleuths can now pore over an interactive, 10 billion-pixel image that reveals Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” in astounding detail.
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam announced a major donation of over 4,000 rare books and periodicals about Surrealism from collectors Laurens Vancrevel and his partner Frida de Jong.
Robert Viens, a 48-year-old man, allegedly broke into the Gardner Museum in Boston on Saturday morning, tossed a package inside, and fled on a bicycle.
Authorities in Egypt are celebrating the repatriation of a collection of 5,000 artifacts from the United States, previously held at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.

Latest Reviews

When UK Punk Rock Fought White Supremacy

In chronicling the Rock Against Racism movement of the ‘70s, White Riot sounds a warning for our own times.

Hrag Vartanian

Martin Scorsese’s Portrait of New York With the Ultimate New Yorker

In the docuseries Pretend It’s a City, cultural commentator Fran Lebowitz leads a talking tour of the city.

Dan Schindel

The Relieving Power of Fashion

How Fashion Can Relieve Us From the Burden of Visibility

Sometimes you cover yourself up in order to reveal more of yourself, and sometimes the covering relieves you from being you.

Anne Cheng

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"The Scream" Pop-Up Card

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