Lucian Freud’s Dozing Nude
Remembering Julio Le Parc, a dispatch from art shows in abandoned homes in Seattle, and more.
What would the swan song of a home sound like? For a group of artists in Seattle, one of the most expensive cities in the United States, it’s an ephemeral exhibition. Amanda Manitach reports on the poignant performances, video works, and impermanent installations that take over abandoned homes in the weeks before their demolition. Leave it to artists to fight gentrification by tenderly bringing an old building back to life.
Also today, we remember the masterful illusions and anti-hierarchical work of artist Julio Le Parc, who passed away at 97 years old. More on his legacy below, plus your guide to art shows in Los Angeles this summer and some good news from New York, where SNAP recipients can now join a free membership program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor
Seattle Artists Breathe Life Into Houses Slated for Demolition
In Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, Once Removed, conceived by gallerists Zoë Hensley and Sammy Skidmore, invites artists to temporarily transform vacant houses slated for demolition, on the verge of erasure. In contrast to the commercial gallery system in which both organizers work — dealing primarily in objects such as glass, sculpture, and painting — the project foregrounds artists working with material and ideas not suited to commercial galleries: wax, cornstarch, charcoal, and flickering video — material as impermanent as the house itself.
“We want to act as a little eddy in the stream of gentrification, giving these houses one last burst of life before they’re gone,” Hensley told Hyperallergic in an interview. | Amanda Manitach
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- Lucian Freud’s widely exhibited nude painting of model Sue Tilley, “Sleeping by the Lion Carpet” (1995–96), could fetch up to $47 million at Sotheby’s in London this June.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced free memberships for NY SNAP recipients through their "Explorer" program, which offers perks like streamlined entry and special previews.
- Julio Le Parc, the Franco-Argentine artist who transformed the spectator into an active participant and spent a lifetime dismantling art-world hierarchies, died at the age of 97.
Art in LA
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer
A romp through early punk culture, Odilon Redon’s dreamy portraiture, Willie Birch’s papier-mâché odes to New Orleans, Samella Lewis’s visions in woodcut, and more. | Matt Stromberg
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The Small Miracle of Greenpoint Open Studios
The annual festival, which went on hiatus during the pandemic, welcomed visitors into the workspaces of over 250 artists in the Brooklyn neighborhood. | Aaron Short
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Jo Ford on Tara Anne Dalbow's “The Painted Book Cover Is Back”
From the Archive
How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
This crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit reactions to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism. | Ed Simon
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