As we enter the weekend, all eyes continue to be on Southern California, due not only to the continuing wildfires, but also to the loss of a Hollywood icon, director David Lynch. As Dan Schindel writes, Lynch passed away at 78, leaving a legacy so unique that it spawned its own adjective. I thought of Lynch every time I had the pleasure of traveling along Mulholland Drive. He will be sorely missed by art and film lovers everywhere. On a brighter note, arts organizations have created a $12 million fund for artists in Los Angeles affected by the fires, as covered by Staff Reporter Isa Farfan — and the rest of us can help by buying artworks to benefit recovery efforts. In Daniel Larkin’s fascinating review of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current show of Sienese painting, he investigates the influence of friars on Renaissance art and the near-absence of this material in the show. Meanwhile, Lori Waxman looks at how artists in Chicago are creatively engaging with the city’s ecosystem, John Yau celebrates Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s love of paint, and Bridget Quinn checks out some blingy rotting fruit. Seph Rodney provides weekend food for thought with his insightful essay on criticism as a way of confronting with care, while our list of old art books we love offers plenty to read. And don’t miss Debra Brehmer’s moving meditation on Frida Kahlo and the art of heartbreak. We rely on your support to bring you the original and intelligent arts journalism you won’t find anywhere else. Please consider becoming a member today. —Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor | |
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| | | With much of the area now in ruins and no clear picture of recovery, artists are reflecting on the once-thriving community and imagining what the future might look like. | Matt Stromberg
From fundraisers to mutual aid drives and emergency grants, there are many ways to find support and help those affected by the blazes. | Maya Pontone and Rhea Nayyar
Donors include the Helen Frankenthaler and Ford foundations, the Getty and LACMA, and commercial galleries. | Isa Farfan
Artists and galleries are stepping up to help meet the massive demand for recovery aid. | Isa Farfan |
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SPONSORED | | | | Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses brings together six decades of work at intersection of identity, technology, and ecology. On view starting January 17. Learn more |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | | A changing contemplative theology of flesh led by friars throughout Italy inspired Sienese artists to imbue their figures with more dimensionality and emotion. | Daniel Larkin
Given that the vast majority of the world’s lands have by now been modified by humans, urban gardens might be the best we can hope for. | Lori Waxman
Cameron Granger pays homage to his grandmother’s rituals of puzzle-solving while rejecting the constrictive grids of urban planning. | Natan Last |
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| | | | Rather than trying to fool us with her representational paintings or showing off her virtuosity in the realm of resemblance, everything is on the surface.
Kathleen Ryan’s large, blingy sculptures of rotting fruit are both semaphores and sirens, warning of our cultural ruin while beckoning us to come closer. | Bridget Quinn
The artist’s works interweave regional dining histories, including the Mesoamerican and the American, in a call to un-Whitewash history. | Liz Kim |
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OPINION | | | The idea of public criticism as “talking shit” rather than a collaborative venture permeates the arts, and it’s ultimately counterproductive. | Seph Rodney
Despite the fact that most of humanity has shared the devastating emotional turmoil of a breakup, the topic is strangely elusive in the history of art. | Debra Brehmer
Archaeologists discovered the second known example of Medieval Nubian tattoos in Sudan, bringing us closer to unraveling the art form’s longer history. | Sarah E. Bond |
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| WHAT WE'RE READING | | | | This year, we’re rereading a fictional dialogue by Oscar Wilde, bell hooks’s book of art criticism, prose poetry by Etel Adnan, and more titles that won’t make it onto most industry lists. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Lisa Yin Zhang, Hakim Bishara, Hrag Vartanian, and Natalie Haddad
As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even. | Damien Davis
Propagandopolis, a globe-spanning selection of visual persuasions from the early 20th century to now, is a travelogue to disinformation’s past. | Melissa Holbrook Pierson |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | The celebratory and regenerative bells of Davina Semo and Ashwini Bhat, Kota Ezawa’s Alcatraz-inspired “video mural,” and more. | Natasha Boas
Despite the fact that most of humanity has shared the devastating emotional turmoil of a breakup, the topic is strangely elusive in the history of art. | Debra Brehmer
Archaeologists discovered the second known example of Medieval Nubian tattoos in Sudan, bringing us closer to unraveling the art form’s longer history. | Sarah E. Bond
This week: subway art honors NYC’s Native history, García Márquez on Netflix, Rachmaninoff’s last student turns 100, test-driving IKEA rooms, and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Organized by geographic region, a list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close. |
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| | | | One of her most ambitious and well-known paintings, Mary Cassatt’s “The Boating Party”(1893/1894) was the main attraction at her first solo exhibition in the United States. Now that it’s been adapted as footwear, we think it deserves just as prominent a place in your spring wardrobe.
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