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Betye Saar, Simone Forti, Walter Benjamin
Your remedy against toxic people, Trump’s war against the Smithsonian, and saying goodbye to two giants of the arts.
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Simone Forti’s Dance of Life
Remembering the pioneering performance artist, who died on Wednesday at 91. Plus: Trump gives two gilded statues in DC a makeover.
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How to Get Canceled in the Art World
Study respondents reacted more negatively toward artists committing sexual assault than murder. Plus, an unexpected pairing with Picasso’s “Guernica.”
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How to Survive Art-World Toxicity
Paddy Johnson offers advice on navigating toxic people in the industry, and how Walter Benjamin warned us about AI.
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Curtis Sliwa and Massive Hot Dog in Times Square
The absurdist elegy of “The Most American Pageant Ever!,” Brazilian modernist Chico da Silva, reclaiming a Thomas Jefferson statue, and more.
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Betye Saar Dies at 99
The beloved artist dies just four days before her 100th birthday. Also, Trump crosses a new line in his war against the Smithsonian.
Books Newsletter
Benjamin Moser on Frederic Edwin Church
The writer and translator reviews a new biography of the Hudson River painter, plus more books to round out July.
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A Guerrilla Girl Drops Her Mask
Joyce Kozloff becomes the first public member of the feminist collective. Also: Why is an AI company stamping its name onto an art school?
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Christopher Nolan, David Hockney, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara
A political prisoner is freed, a Homerist reviews Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” and do we have to pretend to like David Hockney’s iPad paintings?
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The Biggest American Wiener
A visit to the “Most American Pageant Ever!” and the story of a broken Jefferson statue’s quill.
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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.
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Jimothy, Meme and Muse
Artists share tributes to the beloved raccoon, plus Sabri Sundos’s odes to Palestinian diaspora and memory.