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May 8, 2021 • View in browser

Recent statements by politicians brought to mind the last stanza from Michael Palmer’s poem ‘Third Elegy,” which is in the recently published Little Elegies for Sister Satan (2021):

mouthful of sand

while deaf to those measures

which draw us together

— John Yau, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend

Deborah Remington’s Singular Place in Art

By employing a slow, deliberate process in which control is paramount, Remington shaped her passage in time.

John Yau

Bisa Butler’s Worlds in Cut Cloth

Birds and airplanes soar, horses gallop, purples meet yellows, cerulean blues tango with magenta in geometric patterns, foliate designs crash into damask.

Debra Brehmer

Photographs That Bring the Past Into the Present

By constructing a highly detailed world based on historical events, Jasper de Biejer gives himself permission to ponder the past.

John Yau

Richard Mosse's Photos Exoticize Disaster

Employing drones, Mosse creates psychedelic aerial maps of ecological degradation.

Louis Bury

A Female Vision of Sci-Fi

Izumi Suzuki introduced a different vision of femininity, one that departed from the stereotypes so abundant in the work of male writers.

Ren Scateni

Artworks Orbiting the Thinking of Hannah Arendt

Eight shows over the course of a year loosely explore the eight chapters of Arendt’s 1968 book, Between Past and Future.“

Michael Glover

Required Reading

This week, the anthropological use and abuse of human remains, rest and liberation, the cult of Trump, the cicada invasion, the first frozen margarita machine, and more.

Hrag Vartanian

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