Artists at Risk Shares Resources for Ukrainian Artists Fleeing the War

March 9, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌨️ Today, a list of resources for Ukrainian artists fleeing danger, the Smithsonian Museums have announced that visitors will not be required to wear masks anymore, and a never-before-seen portrait of Princess Diana goes on view in London.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Artists at Risk Shares Resources for Ukrainian Artists Fleeing the War

The organization is helping relocate Ukrainians in urgent need of help as well as Russian dissidents who may be at risk of persecution. | Jasmine Liu

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Workers at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, rally for a union on March 4, 2022 (courtesy Wex Workers United)

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The Smithsonian Institution announced it will be dropping its mask mandate across its museums and the National Zoo starting this Friday.

A never-before-seen portrait of Princess Diana by photographer David Bailey is unveiled at Kensington Palace in London.

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Vienna’s Belvedere Museum Highlights Three Early Modernists Who Straddled Europe and Asia

For the first time in three centuries, the Belvedere Museum is displaying creations by artists who are not Austrian and have no connection to Austrian art. | Avedis Hadjian

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Mattai’s art is a searing indictment of the manufactured tropes of immigrant identity deeply embedded in the Western imagination. | Aaron Mom

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The work of 36 artists, most of whom identify as Indigenous, is centered around the impact of nuclear testing and uranium mining, and their attendant contamination. | Shaw Bowman

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