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Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2021
Your useful guide to the fairs and exhibitions of interest this week.
Valentina Di Liscia
Valentina Di Liscia is a Senior Editor at Hyperallergic. Send her your inquiries, stories, and tips to valentina@hyperallergic.com.
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Louisiana Artists Mobilize to Help Hurricane Ida Victims
With official authorities overwhelmed and underfunded, locals have mobilized a robust relief response, among them members of the state’s thriving arts community.
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Remember That Banksy That Self-Destructed? It's Going Up for Auction
“Girl with a Balloon,” which started shredding as soon as it sold in 2018, could fetch more than $8 million.
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Marcia Schvartz Paints Argentina’s Unseen
Schvartz paints an unflinching portrait of the working class, of barrio culture, of women involved in the innocent yet staunchly political act of simply being.
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What “All the Rapes in the Met Museum” Tell Us About Sexual Violence in Art History
A new book project by Macushla Robinson looks at the way in which sexual violence is discussed, and often downplayed, in museum wall labels and cataloguing.
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David’s Painting of Eminent Scientists Depicted Them as More Elite Than Revolutionary
The original composition showed the chemists “as wealthy tax collectors and fashionable luxury consumers rather than as the progressive and scientifically minded couple that define the portrait today.”
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Emmett Till’s Life Honored in Smithsonian Exhibition
A sign remembering Till, defaced with bullets, will be displayed across from the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Drake's Next Album Cover Is Comically Bad — and Designed by Damien Hirst
The cover is a deluded, self-referential tribute to Hirst's career.
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Computer-Generated New Yorker Cartoons Are Delightfully Weird
The palimpsestic drawings and irreverent captions dissolve into senselessness, upending the ubiquitous cartoon medium.
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On the Day of Marsha Johnson’s Birthday, Guerrilla Memorial Pops Up by Stonewall
After a statue of the trans activist promised by the city was delayed by the pandemic, activists installed the bust themselves this week.
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Family Behind Bob Ross Inc. Responds to Unflattering Documentary Depiction
Bob Ross, Inc. (BRI) has taken a stand against the new Netflix documentary Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal, and Greed (2021), which chronicles the TV painter’s rise to fame and subsequent legal controversies after his death. In a public statement released yesterday , BRI denounced the film’s “inaccurate and
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Vermeer Restoration, Finally Complete, Reveals a Painting Within a Painting
Conservators at Dresden's Old Masters Picture Gallery have uncovered a full-length cupid in Vermeer's "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" — likely painted over by someone other than the artist.