Art ’s Conventional Signifiers Are No Longer Useful

April 28, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today in the news, the Toledo Museum of Art is selling works by Cézanne, Matisse, and Renoir to diversify its collection, the San Francisco Art Institute gets a grant to preserve its Diego Rivera mural, and a judge in Florida orders a man who defaced an LGBTQ+ mural to write an essay about hate crimes. We also have reviews of Pratt Institute’s MFA thesis exhibition, Thornton Willis, and much more.

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