July 28, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. 🌦 Today, the Met museum acquires works from artist Howard Hodgkin’s Indian art collection despite provenance concerns, a new trend of “blursed” (blessed+cursed) images on Reddit (they're hilarious), an artist creates a faux Sweetgreen in New York's Chinatown to highlight issues of race and labor, and more.
You should also check out our reviews of Duke Riley, Sonia Gechtoff, Shirley Tse, and the new documentary The Art of Making It.
— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief
Sonia Gechtoff Finally Gets Her Due
Gechtoff’s work did not fit into any of the New York art world’s narratives of progressive art. It is time we look closer at what this marvelous artist achieved. | John Yau
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LATEST NEWS
Alexander Si's "Sweet Green" (2022) (courtesy the artist)
Artist Alexander Si recreated a Sweetgreen storefront to explore the racialized labor behind the salad chain.
- The Met acquires a collection of Indian art reportedly rejected by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford over provenance concerns.
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ECOLOGICAL PRACTICES
Shirley Tse's Ecology of the Everyday
In her art, Tse confronts the hypocrisies of our larger environmental reality, in which the time to search for sustainable models is running out. | Vanessa Holyoak
Duke Riley’s Burlesque Spin on the Trappings of Museum Display and Folk Art
Riley’s nautical-themed exhibition brims with antic details that constitute a feat of serious world-building. | Louis Bury
MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC
The Art of Making It Is a Film for Those Who Haven’t Been Paying Attention
The documentary has impressive access to contemporary art world figures, but comes up with no good solutions for the many problems it discusses. | Dan Schindel
Reddit Users Share Their Most “Blursed” Images
Some things in life are more than just “blessed” or “cursed” — they are “blursed,” which is to say, both. | Sarah Rose Sharp
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IN MEMORIAM
Danielle Abrams (1968-2022)
Performance artist | Boston Globe
Jennifer Bartlett (1941-2022)
Artist known for Conceptual and abstract works | Artnews
Perry Rubenstein (1954-2022)
New York dealer convicted of embezzlement | New York Times
Nelson Stevens (1938-2022)
Artist, activist, and educator | Culture Type
