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Good morning. 🌤️ Today, reviews of William Hogarth, Stephen Westfall, Mike Mills, why Frida Kahlo still can’t be considered “great,” and vintage Thanksgiving postcards.

We hope everyone who is celebrating today has a restful day surrounded by those you love.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards Are Bizarre

Nothing like saying Happy Thanksgiving with a postcard of a turkey with a knife and fork sticking out of it. | Hrag Vartanian

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Edward Burtynsky, "Phosphor Tailings Pond #4, Near Lakeland, Florida, USA" (2012) (© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York/Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco)

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ART & OPINION

Geometry in a State of Collapse

Westfall stays true to his love of planar geometry, while finding ways to undermine all traces of predictability and stability. | John Yau

The Great Painter of London's Mayhem

Hogarth and his contemporaries agreed that human life was a stinking and dirty business once you had skimmed the froth off the top. | Michael Glover

Why Frida Kahlo Still Isn't a Great Woman Artist

Greatness, in this new golden age of wealth and vanity collecting, is inextricably linked to money, selling prices, and auction results. | Hall W. Rockefeller

FILM & DOCUMENTARY

This Thanksgiving, Don’t Forget the History of Native Bounties in the US

The documentary short Bounty and its accompanying website make a potent statement from the Penobscot Nation that they are still here. | Dan Schindel

C’mon C’mon and Mike Mills’s Vision of Masculine Vulnerability

In the films of Mike Mills, sensitive male characters reckon with who they are when who they are doesn’t seem to measure up. | Eileen G’Sell

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