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First Impressions From the 2024 Whitney Biennial

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The exhibition that often acts as a barometer of trends and ideas percolating in global art communities has both hits and misses.

https://hyperallergic.com/877662/first-impressions-from-the-2024-whitney-biennial/

Questions Remain After ICA Miami Removes Portrait of Edward Said

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Charles Gaines’s artwork depicting the Palestinian-American scholar was quietly taken down and re-installed, rousing concerns.

https://hyperallergic.com/876404/questions-remain-after-ica-miami-removes-portrait-of-edward-said/

When Shakespeare Lured Soldiers to Battle

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Beloved by kings and generals, Shakespeare’s lines have always found their way into powerful hands — and employed to violent ends.

https://hyperallergic.com/877651/when-shakespeare-lured-soldiers-to-battle/

How Giuseppe Arcimboldo Made the Familiar Bizarre

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The artist’s perplexing paintings should be viewed not as mere visual puzzles, but instantiations of an occult philosophy.

https://hyperallergic.com/877559/how-giuseppe-arcimboldo-made-the-familiar-bizarre/

Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists

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Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school’s graduating students. MFA and BFA work on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York.

https://hyperallergic.com/808320/mondays-at-pratt-institute-weekly-openings-mfa-bfa-artists/

The Dark Clouds Closing In on Mark Rothko

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A retrospective exhibition in Paris holds so much beauty that visitors may miss how the artist, exhausted, painted himself into a corner.

https://hyperallergic.com/877124/the-dark-clouds-closing-in-on-mark-rothko-fondation-louis-vuitton/

Was John Singer Sargent an Insufferable Snob?

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Sargent’s sitters were all rich enough to employ him — the nouveau riches or (less often) the aristocratic, though it hardly matters.

https://hyperallergic.com/877074/was-john-singer-sargent-an-insufferable-snob-tate-britain/

Ann Arbor Film Festival Returns With 110 Films From 31 Countries

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North America’s oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival presents screenings online and in-person from March 26 through April 7.

https://hyperallergic.com/876691/ann-arbor-film-festival-returns-with-110-films-from-31-countries/

UrbanGlass Staff Leave Exhibition After Board Excludes Palestinian Artist’s Work

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The board said the neon artwork, which features the phrase “from the river to the sea,” could be interpreted as a “call for violence.”

https://hyperallergic.com/876888/urbanglass-staff-leave-exhibition-after-board-excludes-palestinian-artists-work/

LA Protesters Block Traffic, Chanting “No Oscars During Genocide”

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More than 1,000 organizers, artists, and film workers gathered to protest what they see as Hollywood's silence and complicity with the Israeli government.

https://hyperallergic.com/876950/la-protesters-block-traffic-chanting-no-oscars-during-genocide/

The Synergetic Spirit of Buffalo’s Black Arts Community

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The continuum of Black artists in the city has fostered decades of spaces and practices centering accessibility and the link between art and life.

https://hyperallergic.com/876439/the-synergetic-spirit-of-buffalo-black-arts-community/

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts CEO Resigns Over Pro-Palestine Action

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Sara Fenske Bahat cited the “Love Letter for Gaza” intervention on February 15 “and its unending repercussions.”

https://hyperallergic.com/876692/yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts-ceo-resigns-over-pro-palestine-action/

None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection

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Japan Society explores the origins of Zen Buddhism over four centuries of work from painter-monks, including celebrated Buddhist master Hakuin Ekaku.

https://hyperallergic.com/876018/none-whatsoever-zen-paintings-from-the-gitter-yelen-collection-japan-society/

Pro-Palestine Activists Slash Painting of Former British Prime Minister

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The 1914 portrait depicts Arthur Balfour, author of the 1917 declaration that established Britain's aim to create a Jewish state in Palestine.

https://hyperallergic.com/876693/pro-palestine-activists-slash-painting-of-former-british-prime-minister-arthur-balfour/

Activists Disrupt Israeli Artist Michal Rovner’s Opening at Pace Gallery

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Demonstrators led a silent performance and dispersed fabric poppy petals inscribed with the names of Palestinians killed by Israel.

https://hyperallergic.com/876669/activists-disrupt-israeli-artist-michal-rovner-opening-at-pace-gallery/

Required Reading

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This week, aging and women’s self-portraiture, the fictional language of Dune, an Air Canada AI nightmare, Terracotta army dancers, and much more.

https://hyperallergic.com/876406/required-reading-671/

Required Reading

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This week, aging and women’s self-portraiture, the fictional language of Dune, an Air Canada AI nightmare, Terracotta army dancers, and much more.

https://hyperallergic.com/876406/required-reading-671/

MASS MoCA Workers Picket Museum on Second Day of Strike

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The union is seeking a higher minimum wage and salary hikes across the board.

https://hyperallergic.com/876435/mass-moca-workers-picket-museum-on-second-day-of-strike/

Shan Shui Reboot: Re-Envisioning Landscape for a Changing World

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Contemporary artists reinterpret traditional Chinese landscape painting in the context of the climate crisis in this show at China Institute Gallery in NYC.

https://hyperallergic.com/875867/shan-shui-reboot-re-envisioning-landscape-for-a-changing-world-china-institute-gallery/

Reimagine Peace, No Matter How Long the Path

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As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Machiko Harada examines how Japanese and Japanese-American artists address the painful legacy of US concentration camps during World War II.

https://hyperallergic.com/876231/re-imagine-peace-no-matter-how-long-the-path/