Weekend: Divya Mehra, Anne Truitt, Barbara Guest, and more

In this issue, Weekend Co-Editor Natalie Haddad writes about the artist Divya Mehra’s postcard series

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In this issue, Weekend Co-Editor Natalie Haddad writes about the artist Divya Mehra’s postcard series, The End of You, which dramatizes disparities among groups impacted by disasters. On one postcard, “a white man clutches a package of toilet paper in a convenience store while the Black female cashier observes the red mushroom cloud outside. The caption on the back, ‘This Is Important.’"What is important now that a fractious new political landscape is emerging amid the pandemic’s ongoing devastation? Whose issues should be addressed? What will be the new economic priorities? Who gets the vaccine and who waits? As Mehra’s postcard suggests, what is important is both a social and moral question. It is a time to be vigilant lest we miss some mushroom cloud just because it isn’t rising over our own head.– Albert Mobilio, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend

The Fallacies of Whiteness Divya Mehra offers a complex view of race and identity that supplants the myth of a monolithic Other. Natalie Haddad

Some of the Best Art Books of 2020 Abstractions, illusions, DIY concoctions, museums touting their collections, and other holiday confections. Michael Glover

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Anne Truitt’s Spiritual Quest As her death approached, was the artist starting fresh or beginning to let go? John Yau

Clean Lines and Calm in a Time of Unrest The exhibition “Shofuso and Modernism” presents a synthesis of International Style and Japanese craft traditions. Stan Mir

A Poet Who Wrote the Way Abstract Expressionists Painted Barbara Guest stands apart as a radical traditionalist, committed to poetry’s clairvoyant, mythical potentials. Tim Keane

SPONSORED Message from the Library with Molly Crabapple Join award-winning artist, writer, and author Molly Crabapple as she presents Brooklyn Public Library’s next Message from the Library.

Artists Quarantine with Their Art Collections “Suddenly a woman embracing a dolphin like a long-lost friend feels like a fever dream.” Stephen Maine

Required Reading This week, trees communicate with one another, the new Billie Holiday documentary, maskless stress dreams, and more. Elisa Wouk Almino

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