Weekend
July 31, 2021 • View in browser
Life got one step closer to normal for the West Coast art world this weekend as the Felix Art Fair returned to Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel. In addition, LA art lovers can enjoy the inaugural Gallery Weekend Los Angeles, a series of art and events hosted by almost 80 galleries, that continues through Sunday.
This weekend, Daniel Gerwin looks at a standout LA show, Sarah Ann Weber at Anat Ebgi. As Gerwin writes of Weber's Edenic worlds, "her paintings assert the strength and power in conventional notions of femininity."
— Natalie Haddad, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend
The Feminist Power of Beauty
Beauty remains an uncomfortable territory for many contemporary artists, which makes the boldness of Sarah Ann Weber’s aesthetics all the more compelling. | Daniel Gerwin
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A Towering Cosmic Sculpture by Tigre Mashaal-Lively Finds a New Home
On Friday, July 30, the artist will unveil their work outside form & concept and Zane Bennett Contemporary Art galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Learn more.
Together in Peace and Protest
Not all of the scenes Dianna Settles paints are pleasant, but that seems to be the point: for better or worse, we are undeniably yoked in our collective experience of being human. | Natalie Weis
An Asian Artist’s Isolation in New York
Yuri Yuan’s sense of isolation is an inescapable feature of her daily life, which she simultaneously examines and holds at bay through the act of painting. | John Yau
In Henry Taylor’s Paintings, the Past Bleeds Into the Present
Taylor’s paintings emphasize that golf and horse racing, though once exclusively activities for privileged white men, depended on the support of men who were almost invariably Black. | David Carrier
Jon Pylypchuk’s Chorus of Loss
Pylypchuk’s art has always been deeply engaged with the most painful parts of life, those that human beings tend to push aside or deny in order to get by. | Natalie Haddad
Required Reading
This week, how queer sex lives have been reconfigured by the pandemic, dommes are convincing their subs to get vaccinated, carbon offsets are catching fire, and more. | Jasmine Weber
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