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How Artists Reimagine Our Relationship With Death
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As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Brianna L. Hernández examines how seven artists reclaim end-of-life traditions in their practice.
https://hyperallergic.com/874287/how-artists-reimagine-our-relationship-with-death/
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This March
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SWANA women artists, Dorothy Hood’s unsung surrealism, Jennifer West’s cosmological spider webs, queer Chicanx borderlands, and more.
https://hyperallergic.com/873827/10-shows-to-see-in-los-angeles-march-2024/
Three Modernist Women Who Reclaimed the Nude
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Painting Her Pleasure delves into the work of three women artists whose own engagement with the nude was prescient and groundbreaking
Pink Dolphins Bear Witness to the Amazon’s Destruction
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Three shows in Manhattan wield film, sculpture, and archival ephemera to illuminate the historical threads of ecological devastation in the vast region.
Emily Eveleth’s Doughnuts Bleed for Our Sins
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In Eveleth's work, debauchery and decadence meet in the lowly doughnut, which we are invited to read as a limbless torso with a dripping orifice.
https://hyperallergic.com/873863/emily-eveleth-doughnuts-bleed-for-our-sins/
MoMA PS1 Workers Urge Director Connie Butler to “Settle a Fair Contract”
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In an action outside the museum, staff rallied for better wages and health benefits.
4,000 Art Workers Call for Israel’s Exclusion From the Venice Biennale
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Nan Goldin, Michael Rakowitz, and others say that “platforming art representing a state engaged in ongoing atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza is unacceptable.”
Albrecht Dürer, a Humanist Messiah
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He believed, and demonstrated, that individuals could ascend to divine realms of knowledge.
https://hyperallergic.com/873317/albrecht-durer-a-humanist-messiah/
Documenting Ridgewood’s Abandoned Tree Beds
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Alexa Hoyer captures the remnants of tree trunks in the Queens neighborhood in accidentally artistic tableaux.
https://hyperallergic.com/873592/alexa-hoyer-documenting-ridgewood-new-york-abandoned-tree-beds/
Jewish Voice for Peace Channels Young Lords in “Dump AIPAC” March
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Echoing the Puerto Rican youth group’s 1969 "Garbage Offensive," JVP urged NYC officials to cut ties with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
https://hyperallergic.com/873552/jewish-voice-for-peace-channels-young-lords-in-dump-aipac-march/
Required Reading
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This week, tooth fairy troubles, viral “funny” trauma stories, Byzantine art, Frida Kahlo and indigeneity, and more.
LA City Council Approves Over $1M to Clean Graffiti From Towers
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Additional funds were set aside to install fencing, remove scaffolding, and hire security services for the luxury development that was tagged in early February.
Hartford Art School Celebrates Resident Artist Jonathan Herrera Soto in Solo Exhibition
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Twice the Legal Minute explores the visual language of accumulation, debris, and neglect. On view at the University of Hartford in Connecticut.
Artepaño Dispatches From the US Carceral System
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As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Álvaro Ibarra imagines correspondences by Chicano artists who endured incarceration in America.
https://hyperallergic.com/873069/artepano-dispatches-from-the-us-carceral-system/
British Museum Hosts Runway Show With Parthenon Marbles as “Backdrop”
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Greece Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the institution’s decision to allow Erdem’s show demonstrated “zero respect” for the sculptures.
Prince William and Ayo Edebiri Photo Becomes Meme About Royal Discomfort
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Sometimes, taking a moment out of context reveals a deeper truth.
10 Offbeat Art Events During LA’s Art Fair Week
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Performances, listening parties, exhibitions, and art bars provide a much-needed break from the market-driven frenzy.
https://hyperallergic.com/872757/10-offbeat-art-events-during-los-angeles-art-fair-week-2024/
Brooklyn Cannabis Dispensary Restores Biggie Mural After Backlash
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Emerald Dispensary in Bushwick had painted over the image of the rap legend, fearing that it would violate the state’s advertising regulations.
https://hyperallergic.com/872407/brooklyn-cannabis-dispensary-restores-biggie-mural-after-backlash/
When Museums Become Instagram Bait
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Many of the works in When Forms Come Alive are irredeemably superficial, as colorfully lightweight as they come.
https://hyperallergic.com/872524/when-museums-become-instagram-bait-hayward-gallery-london/
At the IFPDA Print Fair, the Magic’s in the Details
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The show returns to the cavernous Park Avenue Armory with painstakingly intricate works that convey a commitment to an often underappreciated craft.
https://hyperallergic.com/872334/at-the-ifpda-print-fair-2024-the-magics-in-the-details/