Books
18 Art Books to Read This Fall
Poems inspired by Hilma af Klint, a fictional account of Peggy Guggenheim’s life, and the first biography of Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine are among the titles we’re most excited about.
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Required Reading
This week: Hyperallergic visits a local radio station, a documentary on Sudanese resilience, bestseller lists are a lie, Christina Sharpe’s new essay, croissant Temu lamps, and more.
Film
Activists Interrupt Israeli Film Screening at Toronto Festival
Anti-Zionist protesters called out the film Bliss (Hemda), one of the centerpieces of TIFF this year, for its ties to the Israeli government.
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Art Institute of Chicago Gets "Transformative" $75M Gift
Collectors Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed’s donation will fund a new building to house the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art.
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A View From the Easel
“As a photographer, a studio can be where I am: walking, traveling, struck by light, demanding that I take a snapshot.”
Books
How a Tarot Deck Led to a Revolution
What makes The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith stand out is how much the book emphasizes the creative process and treats the cards like art.
Art
Ed Ruscha Reminds Us to Take Nothing at Face Value
A survey at LACMA takes us through six decades of the artist’s innovations in exploring the relationships between words, images, and materials.
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Is Anything Subversive About Warhol’s Idealized Male?
Velvet Rage and Beauty seems to position itself as part of a larger project of inflecting our understanding of Warhol with his own sexuality.
Film
A Brooklyn Neighborhood Fights for Its Future in a New Documentary
Emergent City returns to the old-school “fly-on-the-wall” method of filmmaking to capture democracy in practice in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
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Jimmy Gordon’s Homegrown Surrealism
The artist, a pioneering member of Lexington’s LGBTQ+ art world, used circus and sideshow imagery to create poignant meditations on isolation.
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The Rubin Museum’s Swan Song Is an Ode to Himalayan Art Now
The institution’s final show embodies its ethos: inviting viewers to deepen their connections with the world around them via contemplation of art from the region.
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First Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York Paintings Now on View in Chicago
Overlooked by NY institutions and the male art world, the artist’s experimental depictions of skyscrapers get their own exhibition a century later.