A comics review of a Yoko Ono survey in London, poems for Vincent van Gogh, and books that will make you feel sorry for AI are just a few of our offerings today. What else? A city plan to “beautify” New York’s Chinatown faces resistance from locals, the oversized penguin that took the internet by storm, Required Reading, A View From the Easel, and more.
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Music of the Mind at Tate Modern was a memory bank of seven decades of the avant-garde artist’s career. | Coco Picard
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IN THE NEWS
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 | A city project aimed to “beautify” New York City’s Chinatown draws criticism from the community.
In the Netherlands, a new neurological study finds that five artworks induced stronger positive responses in 20 participants than museum shop reproductions.
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ART & BOOKS
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What started as a catalog essay about van Gogh’s little-known passion for poetry became a suite of poems for the Dutch painter. | Michael Glover
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Stamps Gallery’s panel discussion with Benedict Hinmon and Rochelle Ettawageshik supports its major exhibition of renowned black ash basket weavers. Learn more
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A small press is publishing innovative narrative works that travel across genres, including autotheory, criticism, experimental poetry, and documentary. | Raquel Gutiérrez
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The artist’s works force theatrical encounters with metaphors for colonization or display the same violence actualized against discrete bodies. | Claudia Ross
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC
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The bumbling penguin has captured the hearts of millions on the internet and spawned a wealth of fan art and illustrations. | Rhea Nayyar
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“The longer I paint, the more I realize what I don’t know or cannot do. Simply exploring the material could keep a person busy forever.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
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This week: Renée Cox’s trailblazing photography, more Eric Adams shenanigans, the loneliness epidemic, and why do we binge-watch TV shows about work? | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
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TRANSITIONS
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Laura Augusta was named director and chief curator of the Blaffer Art Museum.
Christiana Collu was appointed director of Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice.
Jeffrey Gibson is now represented by Hauser & Wirth in collaboration with Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Jessica S. Hong was named chief curator of theKemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
The estate of Jackson Pollock is now represented by Kasmin.
Myles Russell-Cook was named artistic director and CEO of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
Zoë Ryan was appointed the next director of the Hammer Museum at the University of
California, Los Angeles. She will be departing her position as director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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AWARDS & ACCOLADES
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Justin Vivian Bond, Tony Cokes, Ebony G. Patterson, and Wendy Red Star received 2024 Macarthur Genius Fellowships. Read more on Hyperallergic.
Alejandro Cruz, Clara Esborraz, Ana María Montenegro, and Davi
Pontes are among the winners of Fundación Ama Amoedo Grants. See the full list here. |
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