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The Bennett Prize’s Call for Entries Is Now Open

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Women figurative realist painters can propel their careers by entering to win $50,000 and a traveling solo exhibition of their work. Applications are open through October 4.

https://hyperallergic.com/879239/the-bennett-prize-2025-call-for-entries/

Faith Ringgold, Larger-Than-Life Artist and Storyteller, Dies at 93

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She leaves behind a massive corpus of visually stunning works tackling race, gender, and social justice in the United States.

https://hyperallergic.com/902392/faith-ringgold-larger-than-life-artist-and-storyteller-dies-at-93/

Before Lockets, There Were Hidden Renaissance Portraits

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Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance explores the paintings concealed behind mirrors, in folded diptychs, and on the backs of other works.

https://hyperallergic.com/898360/before-lockets-there-were-hidden-renaissance-portraits/

Stop Calling the Whitney Biennial “Safe”

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Art-world people love lobbing this low-hanging critical fruit at the exhibition. This year especially, the moniker is ill-fitting and glib.

https://hyperallergic.com/901709/stop-calling-the-2024-whitney-biennial-safe/

Required Reading

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This week, Eid in Gaza, Arizona’s draconian anti-abortion law, a TikTok critic’s honest review of the eclipse, trolling Eric Adams, postmodern Bob Ross, and more.

https://hyperallergic.com/901031/required-reading-676/

Lex Brown’s Mythical Characters Confront Earthly Problems

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The artist’s science fiction musical Carnelian debuted at Oklohoma’s Sovereign Futures symposium.

https://hyperallergic.com/899484/lex-browns-mythical-characters-confront-earthly-problems/

Lorraine O’Grady and Nicholas Galanin Named Guggenheim Fellows

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The two are among 68 visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, and art scholars receiving the prestigious prize.

https://hyperallergic.com/900966/lorraine-ogrady-and-nicholas-galanin-named-2024-guggenheim-fellows/

Derrick Adams, Peter Burr, and More Artists Project Works Onto Historic Hangars in Brooklyn

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Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy brings together dozens of artists for the inaugural Floyd Bennett Field! Public Arts Festival on April 19–21.

https://hyperallergic.com/899750/derrick-adams-peter-burr-artists-project-onto-historic-hangars-brooklyn/

NYC’s Largest Trivia Event Returns to the Queens Museum

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After a four-year hiatus, the Panorama Challenge is back for its 13th edition at the museum’s massive model of the city that was created for the 1964 World’s Fair.

https://hyperallergic.com/899629/nyc-largest-trivia-event-returns-to-the-queens-museum/

The Uneasy Heartbreak of End of Evangelion

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More than a quarter century after its original release, US audiences can finally watch Hideaki Anno’s mecha anime masterpiece in theaters.

https://hyperallergic.com/900185/the-uneasy-heartbreak-of-hideaki-anno-end-of-evangelion/

ArtFields Festival Spotlights Over 450 Southeastern US Artists

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The 2024 art competition and festival awards over $100,000 in cash prizes to artists across the Southeast. On view April 26–May 4 in Lake City, South Carolina.

https://hyperallergic.com/898520/artfields-festival-spotlights-over-450-southeastern-us-artists/

Stan VanDerBeek’s Virtual Windows on the World

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A cacophony of life, death, and perfume ads, transmitted across the same frequency, VanDerBeek’s fax collages captures an “international picture language.”

https://hyperallergic.com/898270/stan-vanderbeeks-virtual-windows-on-the-world/

Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project

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Bedford Gallery’s exhibition presents a photo-docuseries with nearly 100 photographs documenting Indigenous stories alongside sculptural works. On view in California’s Bay Area.

https://hyperallergic.com/892181/re-discovering-native-america-stories-in-motion-with-the-red-road-project-bedford-gallery/

Will Richard Serra’s Forgotten Paris Sculpture Finally See the Light of Day?

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When I broke the story about the whereabouts of “Clara-Clara,” I hoped that it would spur action by the City of Paris, which owns the work. It appears that it has.

https://hyperallergic.com/899378/will-richard-serra-forgotten-paris-sculpture-finally-see-the-light-of-day/

The Most Breathtaking Photographs of the 2024 Solar Eclipse

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You didn’t need to be in the path of totality to be awed.

https://hyperallergic.com/898495/the-most-breathtaking-photographs-of-the-2024-solar-eclipse/

How Hindu Iconography Became an Extension of Right-Wing Nationalism

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Ubiquitous imagery of aggressive, hypermasculine deities across India has become a chilling extension and tool of the Hindu right’s anti-Muslim rhetoric.

https://hyperallergic.com/892110/how-hindu-iconography-became-an-extension-of-right-wing-nationalism/

The Internationalism of the Harlem Renaissance

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The Harlem Renaissance was a globally networked movement of sprawling self-determination energized by the new modalities of Black subjectivity.

https://hyperallergic.com/897200/the-internationalism-of-the-harlem-renaissance-metropolitan-museum/

The New York Antiquarian Book Fair Returns With Its Eclectic Clamor

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Blue jeans patents, suffragette cookbooks, noise-making 19th-century children’s books, and so much more.

https://hyperallergic.com/897088/the-new-york-antiquarian-book-fair-returns-with-its-eclectic-clamor/

Artist Seeks Restraining Order to Prevent Land Artwork’s Demolition

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The Des Moines Art Center cited the “ephemeral” nature of artist Mary Miss’s original materials in its decision to destroy the work.

https://hyperallergic.com/897157/artist-mary-miss-seeks-restraining-order-to-prevent-land-artworks-demolition/

Should I Trust My Art Dealer?

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A look at the failed, racially charged takedown of dealer-activist Amar Singh.

https://hyperallergic.com/892112/should-i-trust-my-art-dealer-renee-cox/