Profile: ef632e44...
Hundreds of Columbia Students Walk Out in Support of Gaza
?fit=1024%2C599&quality=100&ssl=1
Students created a living art installation and called for the school to divest from companies connected to the Israeli occupation.
https://hyperallergic.com/855928/hundreds-of-columbia-students-walk-out-in-support-of-gaza/
Activists Rally at New York Times HQ to Call Out Gaza Coverage
?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1
Artists and writers handed out copies of a “New York Crimes” broadsheet and urged the paper to support a ceasefire.
https://hyperallergic.com/855894/activists-rally-at-new-york-times-hq-to-call-out-gaza-coverage/
Required Reading
?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1
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.
Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized
?fit=1024%2C666&quality=100&ssl=1
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
Washington Post Takes Down Offensive Anti-Palestinian Cartoon
?fit=1024%2C574&quality=100&ssl=1
The drawing by conservative cartoonist Michael Ramirez was widely criticized as “racist” and “orientalist.”
https://hyperallergic.com/855654/washington-post-takes-down-offensive-anti-palestinian-cartoon/
Artists Decry Company’s Decision to Pull Mass Incarceration Billboards
?fit=1024%2C512&quality=100&ssl=1
Titled 8 x 5 Houston in reference to the minimum required square footage of a jail cell in Texas, the project featured designs by formerly incarcerated artists.
New Haven Mural Honors Prison Abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore
?fit=1024%2C576&quality=100&ssl=1
The community-led artwork also spotlights the city’s continued advocacy for racial and economic justice.
https://hyperallergic.com/855401/new-haven-mural-honors-prison-abolitionist-ruth-wilson-gilmore/
The Many Faces of Guadalajara’s Famed Ceramics Studio
?fit=1024%2C683&quality=100&ssl=1
In the 1990s, Cerámica Suro began to seek out artists, offering its facility as the site for experimental collaborations in clay.
Worcester Art Museum Presents Faith Ringgold: Freedom to Say What I Please
?fit=1024%2C808&quality=100&ssl=1
Ringgold’s first solo exhibition in New England in nearly 15 years is centered around her story quilt “Picasso’s Studio”, a cornerstone of the museum’s collection.
https://hyperallergic.com/854645/worcester-art-museum-faith-ringgold-freedom-to-say-what-i-please/
Lucia Monge Collaborates With Living Organisms for While a Leaf Breathes (Mientras una Hoja Respira)
?fit=1024%2C576&quality=100&ssl=1
The ArtYard exhibition explores plant respiration as a metaphor for life and vulnerability. On view through January 28 in Frenchtown, New Jersey.
Cuban Artist’s Message of Defiance From Prison
?fit=1024%2C780&quality=100&ssl=1
"There rises within me a rebellious spirit, that does not allow me to resign myself," says Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara.
New Hilma af Klint VR Experience Comes to NYC
?fit=1024%2C576&quality=100&ssl=1
At Fotografiska, visitors can don a headset and view the abstract artist’s work while experiencing the nauseating fear of falling from imaginary cliffs.
https://hyperallergic.com/855013/new-hilma-af-klint-vr-experience-comes-to-nyc/
Southern Voices/Global Visions
?fit=1024%2C679&quality=100&ssl=1
One of the largest curated shows of Southern artists features 41 artists in four locations around Lake City, South Carolina. Presented by ArtFields and South Arts.
https://hyperallergic.com/854626/southern-voices-global-visions-artfields-south-arts/
Hundreds of Activists Surround Statue of Liberty to Call for Gaza Ceasefire
?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1
The action, attended by artists including actor Tavi Gevinson and photographer Nan Goldin, is the latest organized by the group Jewish Voices for Peace.
Bring Great American Art to Your Museum With Art Bridges
?fit=1024%2C640&quality=100&ssl=1
Art Bridges Foundation is expanding access to American art. Partner with us to build your next exhibition.
https://hyperallergic.com/854477/bring-great-american-art-to-your-museum-with-art-bridges/
Russian Airstrike Hits Odesa Fine Arts Museum
?fit=1024%2C682&quality=100&ssl=1
At least eight people were injured in the attack.
https://hyperallergic.com/854965/russian-airstrike-hits-odesa-fine-arts-museum/
Calling for Gaza Ceasefire, Artists Withdraw Work From National Gallery of Art
?fit=1024%2C684&quality=100&ssl=1
Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson asked the federally funded museum to remove their sculpture and called on the government to “demand an immediate ceasefire.”
Climate Activists Smash Velázquez Painting at UK’s National Gallery
?fit=1024%2C576&quality=100&ssl=1
Members of Just Stop Oil took a hammer to the glass protecting “Rokeby Venus” at the London museum.
https://hyperallergic.com/854962/climate-activists-smash-velazquez-painting-at-uks-national-gallery/
10 Art Books We’re Reading This November
?fit=1024%2C768&quality=100&ssl=1
Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes, Nan Goldin’s new catalogue, a visual biography of Marina Abramovic, and more.
https://hyperallergic.com/848496/10-art-books-were-reading-november-2023/
Ontario Museum Reinstates Palestinian Artists’ Works After Protest
?fit=1024%2C806&quality=100&ssl=1
Jenin Yaseen and Sameerah Ahma staged an 18-hour action at the Royal Ontario Museum after it asked to remove sections of their works.