The unvarnished photographs celebrate the lives, beauty, and resilience of an oppressed group at Chile’s social peripheries in the 1980s, and the series was recently acquired by MOCA in Los Angeles.
Cassie Packard
Cassie Packard is an NYC-based writer and cultural critic with bylines at publications including Artforum, BOMB, frieze, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic.
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A Turkish Idol Will Not Be Repatriated, New York Judge Rules
A US District Judge ruled Turkey “slept on its rights” to the figurine by waiting until 2017 to seek its return, after it had been on view at the Metropolitan Museum for decades.
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LACMA and the Brooklyn Museum Will Share 200 Photographs by European Women Artists
The joint gift features photographs by a mix of well-known and emerging artists, including Yto Barrada and Eva Koťátková.
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Looted 16th-century Manuscripts Are Returned to Mexico’s National Archive
At least 10 stolen documents that had been illegally taken from Mexico’s National Archive were ultimately identified.
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for October 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
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Two Nepalese Antiquities in the Rubin Museum Identified as Looted
One researcher, Jürgen Schick, estimated that over half of the region’s historical artworks have been stolen.
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The City of Amsterdam Will Restitute a Kandinsky to Heirs
Many had previously decried the decision not to restitute the work, alleging that the museum had more to gain by keeping the important painting than the heirs.
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A Resplendent Self-portrait by Tourmaline Enters Getty Collection
In “Summer Azure,” Tourmaline rockets upward into a cloudy blue sky, holding an astronaut helmet to her head.
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for September 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including the Armory, Bushwick Open Studios, and the New York Film Festival.
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Black Daguerreotypists Highlighted at the Smithsonian
The American Art Museum purchased a collection of early American photographs spanning the 1840s to the mid-1920s.
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Julia Weist’s “Public Record” Probes the Impact of Artists on Cities
As a resident for the NYC Department of Records and Information Services, Weist explored the relationship between the city and its artists as documented in these vast municipal archives.
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40 Self-Taught Artists, Including Bill Traylor, Enter American Folk Art Museum Collection
The gift deepens the museum’s holdings of Black and Latinx artists from the US, Caribbean, and beyond.