April 19, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. ⛅ Today, a new study points out the creative sector makes up almost a quarter of all jobs in California, authorities are trying to find vandals of some ancient petroglyphs, and a filmmaker focuses on a fake town used to prepare police officers for protests and riots.
You should check out the fun bingo card we created for the Venice Biennale, and if you missed our Spaces chat with Seph Rodney you can listen here.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
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The Bennett Prize’s Call for Entries Is Now Open to Women Figurative Realist Painters
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Vandalized petroglyphs near Santa Fe, New Mexico (image courtesy the FBI)
The FBI is offering a reward for information leading to those responsible for vandalizing the La Cieneguilla petroglyphs in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Columbia’s MFA Thesis Exhibition Opens This Weekend in NYC
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The Fake Town Where Police Trained to Suppress Protests
Hyperallergic talks to director Sierra Pettengill about her documentary Riotsville, USA, which finds the roots of modern policing techniques in the 1960s. | Dan Schindel
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YBCA and Galería de la Raza Present Pedagogy of Hope: Uncage, Reunify, Heal
This new exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts surveys a national campaign that demands the release of migrant children separated from their families at the US-Mexico border. Learn more.
Illinois Humanities Invites Viewers to Imagine a Future Without Mass Incarceration
Featuring new work by Illinois artists, writers, and humanists, the exhibition and activation kit Envisioning Justice RE:ACTION is online and open to the public. Learn more.
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Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond uses speculative fiction as a critical lens on culture. | Rachel Harris-Huffman
Sustainability as a Form of Resistance in Art
At NYU's Latinx Project, a group exhibition explores how Latin, African, and Asian diaspora artists promote sustainability beyond borders. | Billy Anania
Lydia Maria Pfeffer’s World of Fertility, Abundance, and Play
Anthropomorphized frog, insect, and bird figures bob in the background, dancing at the same spring ball. | Jennifer Remenchik
