Art
Required Reading
This week, Eau de Nil, the fake internet, a right-winger’s freakout over a new museum director, reviewing new books about Islam, Scottish coorie, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
News
Decolonize This Place Announces January 26 Town Hall Regarding Whitney Museum’s Tear Gas Problem
The group’s recent letter calls for continued action, adding “Inaction with respect to the art-washing industrial complex of contemporary art makes our field complicit with death, disaster, and destruction.”
Test 2018 posts
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This week, Pantone picks the color of the year, the origin of abstract art, Albrecht Dürer's ads, crowdfunding Kusama in Toronto, and more.
Test 2018 posts
Lowery Stokes Sims and Chloë Bass Talk Empathy, Art, and Education
What does it mean to have empathy? How do we navigate difference? Can contemporary art contribute to our understanding of all this?
Art
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This week, the UK's poetry pavilion, Georgia O'Keeffe’s sister Ida, grad school mental health, underground queer Persian dinners in LA, and more.
News
Whitney Museum Staffers Demand Answers After Vice Chair’s Relationship to Tear Gas Manufacturer Is Revealed
Three days after Hyperallergic published an article detailing the Whitney Museum's connection to the ongoing migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border, more than 100 staffers at the Manhattan-based museum have signed a letter demanding that their employers respond to the article's allegations.
Podcast
Didier William on Painting a Revolution
In his large two-part exhibition, the queer Haitian-American artist centers the body, which figures in his work both literally and figuratively.
Art
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This week, the library of King Ashurbanipal, the new Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, geographies of fear in antiquity, China's Uighurs, alt-right New York, and more.
Test 2018 posts
Required Reading
This week, New York Times's Facebook bombshell, a critic’s nightmare, Black Athena revisted, a fake band gets found out, a banned commercial from Iceland, and more.
Test 2018 posts
Antwaun Sargent on Black Contemporary Art
From social media to mainstream publications, Sir Sargent (as he is known online) is dedicating himself to ensuring that Black voices in the art world are heard.
Test 2018 posts
Required Reading
This week, the new National Veterans Memorial and Museum, a strange dog-headed spider, Fredric Jameson on Karl Ove Knausgaard, Warhol's sexism, KitKats in Japan, and more.
Test 2018 posts
Carleton Watkins and Photography’s Romance with the American West
How do you tell the story of an artist whose archive was destroyed? Tyler Green’s new book focuses on a major figure in the early history of photography.