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Bye, Bye, Bandanas: LA MOCA Visitors Must Wear Medical-grade Masks
Those who want to visit the museum muse have a surgical, KN95, N95, or KF94 face mask.
Required Reading
This week, another Benin bronze is returned to Nigeria, looking at the Black Arts Movement in the US South, Senegal’s vibrant new architecture, why films are more gray, and much more.
Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions
Curated by Eric Brown, this exhibition at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation in New York is on view through February 26.
Jiha Moon’s Artistic Breakthrough
It is precisely Moon’s openness to using any source that makes her work flamboyant, captivating, odd, funny, smart, uncanny, comically monstrous, and unsettling. And, most of all, over the top.
Exhilarating Dreamlands of the Unconscious at the Met Museum
Tensions between resistance to Surrealism as cultural imperialism and the embrace of it as a universalist vision of freedom unfettered run through the show.
Weisman Museum of Art Presents Highlights From the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection
An exhibition at Pepperdine University in Malibu chronicles the achievements and contributions of African Americans over the last five centuries.
Challenging the Perception that Photographs Present an Objective Vision
Imagining the photographic print as a singular art object.
In Seattle, Staff Call for a Boycott in Response to Museum’s Reaction to Unhoused Community
Decolonize SAM says the museum is “putting property over people” by implementing harsh measures against the unhoused community in lieu of alternative efforts.
Apply for Rent-free Studio Space in Brooklyn Through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
The residency program awards 17 visual artists a year of rent-free studio space in New York City. Applications are due by February 15.
Israeli Museum Suspended Operations After 47 Artists Ask to Remove Work
David Reeb’s painting was removed due to political pressure from the local mayor, prompting backlash by other artists.
The Magnificent Abstractions of Alma Thomas
Thomas was a major artist who in her lifetime was unjustly denied the acclaim she merited. This show is a brave beginning.
The Mind-Bending Portraits of Chie Fueki
For years, Fueki has been quietly creating a singular body of mind-bending work that has never fit into the New York art world.
There’s the dangerous, tricky ground of satirizing the stereotypes and those who are attached to them.
It’s a good start. Next, I would also like to see a comic/review/etc on ALL ways and means Black women demonstrate our humor, empathy, and creativity. In color!
Joking.
But I appreciate that he brought in Black girls to explain ourselves, and that he admitted that he still has much to learn about how to portray and understand us. Self-awareness is a beautiful thing.