March 10, 2023
Good morning. 🌧️ In today's news, art students at Philadelphia’s Temple University explain why they've been on strike for the past six weeks while the city of Newark unveils a new Harriet Tubman monument, and a judge rejects Turkey's request for the repatriation of a looted artifact because it waited too long!
You must've noticed how "care" has become a trendy buzzword in the art world since the pandemic. Today we look at how two London exhibitions engage with this concept critically.
I also recommend you read our interview with artist Tali Keren about her investigations of the unholy alliance between the American Christian right and Israel.
There's more, including Required Reading, a comics review of Mike Leigh’s BBC films, and an explainer about Holi, the Hindu festival of color. In the meantime, happy Friday!
— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
Temple University’s Striking Art Students Speak Out
Student workers are facing a deadline on tuition payments after the school halted health and tuition benefits in a widely criticized move. | Elaine Velie
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
A similar stargazer idol from Turkey at the Cycladic Art Museum in Athens, Greece (image via Flickr)
A New York court rules that Turkey has no right to a 6,000-year-old marble “Stargazer” statue, claiming it waited too long to ask for it back.
Designed by artist Nina Cooke John, a new Harriet Tubman monument is unveiled in Newark, New Jersey.
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Artlab Editorial Opens Fellowship Applications
Two art writers who are dedicated to exploring today’s social issues will each receive $10,000 to produce three pieces of writing in 2023. Learn more.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS
The Artist Dissecting the Ties Between the American Christian Right and Israel
Tali Keren’s work interrogates the insidious imbrications of religious, political, and military institutions across the United States and Israel. | Chelsea Haines
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Jane Lombard Gallery Presents (Barely) Tempered: Concepts in Tension
This group exhibition of works in glass spans a range of disciplines and includes a luminescent environment by Rui Sasaki. Curated by Richard Lombard, on view in NYC. Learn more.
A Psalm for the Living Artist
If others are “career” artists, Faina Lerman is a “living” artist — her artistic means are inextricable from her life, rather than motivated by the desire to make a living. | Sarah Rose Sharp
Artists Consider the Concept of Care
Artists such as Leah Clements, Christine Sun Kim, and Jamila Prowse exercise care as responsibility, access, and inclusivity, and fostering a critical dialogue with others. | Lisa Slominski
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Islands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions
Six visual arts organizations across Europe are collaborating on a new project addressing togetherness, fairness, responsibility, and kindness. Learn more.
MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC
What Is Holi, the Hindu Festival of Color?
Welcoming spring and the season of harvest, Holi is inherently playful and joyous as it channels the love between Radha and Krishna. | Rhea Nayyar
Required Reading
This week, crossword puzzles on Black culture, the history of International Women’s Day, gender-neutral award shows, and why do fake reviews online fly under our radar? | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
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COMICS
Mike Leigh’s BBC Films, Ranked
Leigh’s films are class-conscious, prickly, strange, satirical, and often very funny. | Nathan Gelgud
TRANSITIONS
The New York gallery Downs & Ross will now be known as Tara Downs; Alex Ross will no longer be affiliated with the gallery. In other gallery news, Clearing will move from Brooklyn to a new location at 260 Bowery in Manhattan.
Jacob Todd Broussard is now represented by Wolfgang Gallery.
Nicole R. Myers was named chief curatorial and research officer at the Dallas Museum of Art. Anabelle Gambert-Jouan was appointed assistant curator of European Art.
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s director Adam Weinberg will step down from his role in the fall. He will be succeeded by the museum’s current senior deputy director and chief curator, Scott Rothkopf. Read more at Hyperallergic.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
David Chipperfield was named the winner of the 2023 Pritzker Prize.
The Laundromat Project announced the participants of its 2023 Create Change Artist Development Program. A complete list of artists and cultural producers can be found here.
The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced the artists who will participate in its residency program at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. They are Olive Ayhens, Andrea Carlson, Oreen Cohen, Pamela Council, M. Florine Démosthène, Lucia Honey, Soraya Jean-Louis, Nyeema Morgan, Ebony G. Patterson, Pat Phillips, Katy Schimert, Laura Spector, and Hui-Ying Tsai. Two artists, LaToya M. Hobbs and Ariston Jacks, will participate in a virtual residency.
ArtTable announced the host organizations selected list for its 2023 National Fellowship Program; in New York, they include A.I.R. Gallery, the Amant Foundation, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the Project for Empty Space, the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, the Morgan Library & Museum, and NY VoCA (Voices in Contemporary Art). A complete list of organizations and a link to apply for the fellowship can be found here.
