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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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/