March 1, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ⛅ Today, Ukraine accuses Russia of torching a museum, looking at the vintage appeal of New York’s beloved Automats, and what to see and do in New York and Los Angeles this month.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief 

Ukraine Accuses Russia of Burning Down a Museum

About 25 paintings by Ukrainian artist Maria Pryimachenko were destroyed in a fire at a museum near Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials. | Jasmine Liu

IN OTHER NEWS

•  Artists withdraw their works from Russian museums, and curators of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale resign in protest of the invasion of Ukraine.

• The Manhattan DA's Office returns 55 antiquities to Greece, with the majority previously seized from disgraced collector Michael Steinhardt.

WHAT TO SEE IN NYC & LA THIS MONTH

Asking “what if” can be a galvanizing, powerful thing; as you take in the latest exhibition across New York, let yourself brim and fizz with the question’s possibilities.

From the history of donut shops in California to a Barbara Kruger retrospective, March is looking good in Los Angeles.

HAPPENING TONIGHT

The Art-historical Past, Present, and Future of the Shinnecock Indian Nation

Tonight at 7 pm (EST), join us for a special event with curator and artist Jeremy Dennis as he discusses the art-historical legacy of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, of which he is an enrolled member, and his Hyperallergic email exhibition, which delves into the past and present of the Nation’s long-standing presence on what is now known as Southampton Village on Long Island, NY.

The conversation will also explore Dennis’s exhibition Outcropping- Indigenous Art Now, which is on view at the Southampton Arts Center on Shinnecock’s ancestral homelands through April 9, 2022, and features work by contemporary Shinnecock artists and Indigenous artists from various sovereign nations throughout the United States.

Register here.

ART & ART BOOKS

Revisiting Latin American Artists' Struggle for Representation in the United States

While the 1965 Immigration Act opened the United States for expanded Latin American immigration, the decade that followed found migrant artists actively involved in political struggles for representation. | Billy Anania

A New Book on Niki de Saint Phalle Presents the Artist In Her Own Words

A new book on the artist features selections from Saint Phalle’s prints, doodles, letters, and diaries, arranged in roughly chronological order. | Lauren Moya Ford

MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC

When You Could Get a Three-Course Meal and Coffee for 25 Cents in New York

Lisa Hurwitz’s documentary finds some impressive interviewees, including Mel Brooks and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to remember the bygone vending machine restaurant chain Horn & Hardart. | Mark Asch

Why Paint a Building That Will Be Demolished?

Basildon’s new murals represent how artists are used in regeneration schemes the world over: socioeconomic cover-ups under the guise of opportunity. | Rose Cleary

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