November 15, 2021 • View in browser
Good morning. ⛅ Today, when a Bible is not a Bible, a survey reveals the impact of the pandemic on Portland artists, and a look at the luxury book culture of the Holy Roman Empire.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
When a Bible’s Not a Bible
There’s no evidence at all that a small, engraved, gold bead found in Yorkshire is intended to represent a Bible. | Kathleen Kennedy
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The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU Presents Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste: Set It Off
Using sonic frequencies that register just below human audibility, this exhibition in Richmond, Virginia provides site-specific experiences for sound to be deeply felt. Learn more.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Billy Gerard Frank’s project for the 2019 Venice Biennale, Second Eulogy: Mind The Gap (2019). (photography © Billy Gerard Frank; courtesy Grenada Pavilion)
Grenadian artist Billy Gerard Frank is crowdfunding his 2022 Venice Biennale project on the West African abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano.
A survey conducted by artist-writer Beans Gilsdorf reveals the detrimental effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on artists in Portland’s metro area.
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SITE Santa Fe Presents Helen Pashgian: Presences
The first solo presentation of the Los Angeles-based artist in New Mexico celebrates her five-decade career and contributions to the Light and Space movement. Learn more.
LATEST IN ART
The Coexistence of Beauty and Evocations of Race and Power
"Behold" here, in this exhibition, is an invitation to see the intertwining of aesthetic concerns and the rigors of political and historical exploration. | Seph Rodney
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Americas Society Presents This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975
View work by over 40 experimental artists and collectives from throughout the Americas who contributed to New York’s art scene during the 1960s and ’70s. Learn more.
Show on 150 Years of Women Artists at Yale Overcomes Its Thematic Bindings
I found myself imagining Eva Hesse, Wangechi Mutu, and Jen Davis side by side talking, and daring us to join the conversation. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Citizen 13660, a Graphic Memoir of Japanese Concentration Camps, Is an Understudied Masterpiece
Seeing Miné Okubo’s memoir makes the betrayal, humiliation, and downright misery suffered by countless Japanese Americans hit home in a way that no history textbook ever could. | Caroline Ellen Liou
BOOKS
A Look at the Holy Roman Empire’s Most Splendid Books
A new book joins meticulous historical analysis with more than 150 lush, full-color illustrations of these magnificent books and their elaborate bindings. | Lauren Moya Ford
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Lawrence Lek Wins the Grand Prix at Hyundai Motor Group’s 4th VH AWARD
The biennial VH AWARD aims to support new media artists of Asian descent. This year marks the first time artists from outside South Korea were eligible to apply. Learn more.
A Gut-Wrenching but Graceful Photo Project on Trump’s America
Over four tumultuous years, Epstein’s book moves across the country to capture pivotal points of conflict between the American government, the people, and the land. | Lauren Moya Ford
COMICS
The Story of Kunihiko Moriguchi, a Master Kimono Painter
Moriguchi, who studied in Japan and Paris, took the influence of Op art and applied it to the traditional art of kimono painting. | Nathan Gelgud
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