Art
The Farm Art Festival Where You Can See Tractors Do Ballet
Farm/Art DTour, a 50-mile circuit of art installations in Wisconsin’s Sauk County, challenges visitors’ assumptions about the “rural-urban” or “red-blue” divide.
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A Giant Pigeon Is Now Perched on New York’s High Line
Iván Argote’s 2,000-pound, nearly 16-foot-tall cast aluminum sculpture of the divisive bird is here to stay for the next 18 months.
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Taliban Bans Images of Living Beings in Some Afghan Media
The ban on images of any beings “with a soul” in some provinces raises concerns about press freedoms in Afghanistan.
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Mexican Museum Removes Derogatory Art About Sex Workers
Ana Gallardo’s mural at MUAC included offensive descriptions and slurs directed at a shelter for older former sex workers in Mexico City.
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Six New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
As mid-October rolls around we’re enjoying some serious and not-so-serious art by Carrie Mae Weems, Mala Iqbal, Lady Shalamar Montague, and others.
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Centering Indigenous Storytelling Through the Culinary Arts
A meal hosted by Forge Project and I-Collective to mark the fall harvest focused on Indigenous foodways and community-stewarded knowledge.
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A Group Show Bridges Asia and the West Coast
Pacific Abstractions at Perrotin draws attention to Asian abstract artists and traces their legacy through contemporary diasporic artists on the West Coast.
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War Reenactors Wear Nazi Uniforms to Restaurant, Angering Diners
The American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts said it would review its protocols for historical war reenactments after the incident.
Performance
Marval Rex Shares a Tale of Trans Jewish Self-Discovery
The artist's newest performance, Rexodus: Out of the Closet, Into the Tribe, is “sort of a TED talk, but not a boring one,” Rex told Hyperallergic.
Books
Hettie Judah Confronts the Unwritten History of Artist-Mothers
Though more interested in taxonomy than analysis, the critic’s new book is most exhilarating when it maps a timeline of childrearing’s influence on artists.
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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker Named President of National Gallery of Art
Walker has been credited with developing a major art acquisition fund for the DC museum, where he has been a trustee since 2019.
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Nan Goldin Among 200 Jewish Activists Arrested at NYC Protest for Palestine
Artist Molly Crabapple and filmmaker Laura Poitras were also arrested at a massive sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange.