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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.
Excellent work! I thoroughly enjoyed reading, viewing, reflecting. The wealthy arbiters of taste, art, and culture have always been “at” it, even before the rise of capitalism built the “arts industry,” museum boards (often the most undemocratic spaces on the planet), and public arts funding. and the “art of the sellout.”
Fwiw, if we don’t like our government’s decisions regarding art funding, we can vote for a different government. To the extent that art funding comes from wealthy corporations and individuals, we lack even that tenuous control over their decisions. Given the various pressures and proclivities, a mix is probably best. Ps: we can eschew support from the worst corps without eschewing it from all corps… assuming some aren’t as bad as others…