Art Review
Dorothy Hood’s Landscapes of the Psyche
Labels such as “Modernism,” “Surrealism,” or “Color Field” fall away in the abstract painter’s first New York show in half a century.
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Book Review
The Artist Who Taught James Baldwin to Write Like a Painter
The essays in Speculative Light explore the many ways in which Beauford Delaney, another queer Black man, revolutionized Baldwin’s cultural perspective and imagination.
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Hyperallergic’s Art Tarotscope for the Spring Equinox
We start with an inquiry: What do artists need to know in this time of deep tumult?
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Required Reading
This week: Remembering trans artist Miss Kitty Litter Green, a letter from Mahmoud Khalil, gamifying Spotify, the role of gossip, and wait — they paid him how much per article?
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A View From the Easel
“I begin my studio day by putting a half-hour workout on the Peloton.”
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Fred Eversley, Sculptor Who Fused Art and Science, Dies at 83
Despite their technical basis, his works are all about the relationship between the viewer, the art, and the world as it is reflected and refracted.
Book Review
The Secret Life of LA’s Small Museums
With a fair dose of whimsy, Also on View draws attention to museums off the beaten track, centering the region’s rich diasporic fabric and cultural niches.
Art Review
Noah Davis’s Black American Arcadia
Davis portrayed scenes in which Black people could truly recognize themselves, eschewing stereotypical depictions and imbuing his subjects with a sense of the surreal.
News
More Medieval Texts Were Scribed by Women Than Previously Believed
A new study “provides statistical support for the often-overlooked contributions of female scribes over time,” said researcher Åslaug Ommundsen.
Art Review
“Work From Home” Takes on New Meaning at CalArts’s Postgrad MFA Show
The increasingly blurred boundaries between labor and domesticity are the subject of an exhibition of 24 artists who graduated from the program last year.
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The Riotous Variety of Brazilian Modernism
A show of 10 artists working from the 1910s to ’70s demonstrates that the movement was much more diverse than its most notable names suggest.
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NYC Art Advisor Lisa Schiff Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison
She was also ordered to forfeit $6.4 million and pay over $9 million in restitution for defrauding more than a dozen clients.