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This week: the Louvre reopens the room where it happens, a Texas artist’s outdoor collection, Nancy Drew in the public domain, Rachel Cusk and Natalie Portman have beef, and more.
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David Hockney’s Endless Scroll
The late artist’s digital paintings at Serpentine, Tate gets a new director, beyond the myth of Brazilian modernist Chico da Silva, and more.
News
Protesters Decry Chinatown Museum’s Acceptance of “Jail Money” at Town Hall
Leaders of New York’s Museum of Chinese failed to persuade protesters that a $35 million grant from the city was not tied to the construction of a borough jail.
News
Tate Names Dia Leader Jessica Morgan as Next Director
The British curator will return to London to helm the museum network beginning next year.
Art Review
Beyond the Myth of Chico da Silva
Presenting da Silva with Amazonian artists of different generations undermines the Western notion of the artist as an isolated genius.
In Memoriam
Remembering Christine Borland, John Will, and Astrid Furnival
This week, we honor an artist who explored human fragility through science, a pioneering British textile artist, and a champion of digital art.
Art Review
You Can Love David Hockney and Still Hate His iPad Paintings
No amount of curatorial artspeak counters the sense that the late artist’s massive digital painting lacks the inventive mark-making and use of color that characterized his life’s work.
News
Artists Sue NYC Gallery The Hole for Nonpayment
The suit filed by Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi concerns nearly $50,000 in payments allegedly owed to the artists.
News
Juliana Huxtable and Mark Bradford in Major Gift to the Zimmerli Art Museum
Collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein have gifted over 70 works of modern and contemporary art to the Rutgers University museum.
Daily Newsletter
Jimothy, Meme and Muse
Artists share tributes to the beloved raccoon, plus Sabri Sundos’s odes to Palestinian diaspora and memory.
Profile
Sabri Sundos Faces Catastrophe With Flowers
“I am obsessed with autonomy and movement,” the Palestinian-American artist tells Hyperallergic in an interview.
Feature
How Jimothy the Raccoon Became a Hero of the Misfits
The short-spined Seattle animal with an unfettered spirit has been honored in fan art, tattoos, and murals.