March 29, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, in his debut on Hyperallergic, scholar Dan Hicks looks at a project in a German museum that is investigating colonial violence, a VR exhibition featuring the work of Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Veronese goes on display in London, and why we should care about the video essay.

Also, we have information about a fundraiser for the only print studio on the Chilean island of Chiloé. Check it out and help these artists!

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief 

Unmasking a History of Colonial Violence in a German Museum

At Leipzig’s Grassi Museum, a Tanzanian-German artist collaboration is reimagining the removal of a plinth as a sculptural gesture in its own right. | Dan Hicks

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Rafael Lara, "Untitled" (2014), lithograph (image courtesy Dan Cameron)

• A fundraiser aims to help re-equip a small lithography school in Chile’s Chiloé Island.

• Hetvonulsen NH, a new 3,000-square-foot gallery run by two college graduates, opens in the heart of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. 

• The Colby College Museum of Art acquires Faith Ringgold’s narrative quilt “Coming to Jones Road #4: Under A Blood Red Sky.”

LATEST IN ART

Why Is a Virtual Veronese Artwork at a Physical Museum?

To play devil’s advocate, you could argue that eventually technology will be so good that everyone will have VR, and there is no need to travel to the National Gallery at all to see art. | Olivia McEwan

Brad Kahlhamer and the Amalgamations of Existence

Relationships, not isolation, inform Kahlhamer’s ideas of identity. | Lynn Trimble

Chef Silvana Salcido Esparza Blends Mexican Food, Art, and Culture

The chef’s Barrio Café in Metro Phoenix is home to the bold and the beautiful. | Lynn Trimble

ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC

Why We Should Care About the Video Essay

Playing in the poetic space between documentary and fiction the inclusion of found footage and screen recordings has turned the video essay into a representation of online life. | Miguel Pinto

Letting a Dairy Cow’s Life Speak for Itself

In her documentary Cow, Andrea Arnold avoids anthropomorphism, instead trying to present the world as her main character sees it. | Manuela Lazic

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