March 14, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. ☀️ Today, Rome has a new cooking museum that includes the prized recipes of the Popes, looking at photos from the Chinese Exclusive era in the United States, and reviews of Yatika Starr Fields, Jule Korneffel, Matthew Thomas, Maja Ruznic, and the current group exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
Yatika Starr Fields and the Imagined Barrier Between Art and Life
Informed by the legacies of Standing Rock and the January 6 insurrection, the artist grapples with ideas around site and his own agency. | Hrag Vartanian
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
Page spread from The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570), a cookbook written by the private chef of Pope Pius V (image courtesy Museo della Cucina)
Police evacuated New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) after a former member stabbed and wounded two employees.
The Museo della Cucina, opening in Rome this May, will be dedicated to Italy’s long and delicious history of cuisine.
The Palestinian Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum received a $480,000 grant to establish a textile conservation studio.
A deluge of war memes is helping Ukrainians cope with their grim predicament through humor.
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Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian
This exhibition at the museum’s New York City location introduces new generations to one of the 20th century’s most innovative Native American painters. Learn more.
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The Elusive Residue of Memory in Hazy Prints
“These prints are perhaps my surrender to Shadow,” writes New Mexico-based artist Maja Ruznic. | Coco Picard
Awakened by Matthew Thomas’s Spiritual Abstractions
By sharing his particular visual language, Thomas hopes to trigger our own connection to the divine. | Allison Conner
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Affordable Art Fair NYC Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
The fair kicks off its 20th anniversary celebrations in New York with its Spring Edition, taking place in Chelsea from March 23 through March 27. Learn more.
The Photos Left Behind From the Chinese Exclusion Era
At the California Historical Society, curator Erin Garcia contrasts how Chinese people were portrayed in the press with the dignified studio portraits taken in Chinatown. | Emily Wilson
Fragmentation as a Queer Artistic Strategy
What becomes of the body in the work of artists who challenge cisheteronormative frameworks? | Cassie Packard
The Pleasures of Slow Looking
Jule Korneffel is not after denial in her paintings but rather affirmation, even in these chaotic, seesawing times. | John Yau
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