Artemisia Gentileschi, Ronnie Goodman, Amoako Boafo, and more

Happy Tuesday! 🌧️ Today, we bring you reviews of exhibitions by Artemesia Gentileschi and Amoako Boaf

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Happy Tuesday! 🌧️ Today, we bring you reviews of exhibitions by Artemesia Gentileschi and Amoako Boafo, three films that highlight Indigenous stories, and the story of Ronnie Goodman, an unhoused artist who died in San Francisco this past August.We still need your support more than ever. If you are enjoying our newsletters, please consider becoming a member to support our work. We can’t do this without you. Please join us! – Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Ronnie Goodman, Artist of Our Times

Ronnie Goodman, “San Quentin Arts in Corrections Art Studio” (2008) (acrylic painting)

Ronnie Goodman died on August 7 at his encampment on the corner of 16th and Capp streets in San Francisco, an intersection he depicted five years earlier in a self-portrait.In his work, Goodman had long addressed his position as a Black man who experienced houselessness, addiction, and incarceration, foregrounding the interconnectedness of these struggles. Today, much of Goodman’s art appears not only to draw on his life but to anticipate his death.

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National Gallery Shakes off Tired, Lazy View of Artemisia Gentileschi as “Victim” Seeing how impressive and successful Gentileschi was in her lifetime, it is staggering that it has taken show such as this to dispel her unfair dismissal by art history. Olivia McEwan

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