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A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Montana, New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
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News
Activists Take to Guggenheim Museum to Denounce Israeli Airstrikes
The museum temporarily closed its doors after a group dropped banners depicting Palestinians grieving over the bodies of dead children.
News
Christie’s Pulls Paintings by Lebanese Artist After “Complaints”
"I did not expect this decision from Christie’s, as they have previously sold similar works of mine," artist Ayman Baalbaki told Hyperallergic.
Art
The Other Art Fair Lives Up to Its Name
The original “not like the other girls” of art fairs has an ambiance of genuine curiosity and sincere connection.
News
Hundreds of Columbia Students Walk Out in Support of Gaza
Citing the “unauthorized action,” the school suspended the Columbia chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, two advocacy groups.
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Activists Rally at New York Times HQ to Call Out Gaza Coverage
Artists and writers including Nan Goldin and Eileen Myles handed out copies of a “New York Crimes” broadsheet and urged the paper to support a ceasefire.
Art
Required Reading
This week, unopened 18th-century love letters, an unsung female archaeologist, Indigenous artists on the meaning of home, cookie-cutter holiday rom-coms, and more.
Books
Jay DeFeo Put a Lens Up to the World
Recently discovered work demonstrates DeFeo's status as a major contemporary photographer.
News
Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
News
Agnes Martin Gold-Leaf Painting Fetches $19M, Setting Record
Sotheby’s sale of Emily Fisher Landau’s collection also achieved the second-highest prize for a Picasso, but there weren’t too many surprises.
Art
Dala Nasser Builds a Grief Temple in Chicago
Her new exhibition at the Renaissance Society bears witness to infrastructural failure, colonial theft, and disregarded histories.
Film
New Doc Updates Virginia Woolf’s Gender-Bending Orlando
Paul B. Preciado’s film prizes creative passion over pathology, and trades individual trauma for collective and individual transcendence.