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April 21, 2022 • View in browserGood morning. 🌤️ Today, the first-ever Nepal Pavilion will open at the Venice Biennale, writer Abdul-Aliy Muhammad writes that the Penn Museum still has a lot of questions to answer about the remains of the MOVE bombing victims, and reviews of Lucy Mullican, Birgir Andrésson, Maggi Hambling, the film Paris, 13th District, and much more. — Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief Become a member today to support our independent journalism. Decades After Philadelphia’s MOVE Bombing, Penn Museum Still Keeps Secrets on the Remains of 12-Year-Old Girl"Delisha’s mother, Janet Africa, deserves to know where her child’s sacred remains are." | Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad SPONSORED Welcoming Artists: New York Studio School Summer MarathonsNYSS Marathons are immersive 10-day courses which offer a wide range of strategies in drawing, painting & sculpture, with the conceptual inspiration of extensive critiques. Join us In-Person or Virtually from anywhere in the world to elevate your practice and learn new approaches that will last a lifetime. LATEST NEWS From left to right: Nepal Pavilion Curators Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandari with exhibiting artist Tsherin Sherpa (photo by Chhiring Dorje Gurung, courtesy the artists) Nepal will make its debut at the 59th Venice Biennale with support from New York’s Rubin Museum of Art. The grandchildren of a Holocaust victim sue the Israel Museum over an illuminated manuscript allegedly stolen from the family during WWII. Museums in Glasgow will restitute 17 Benin bronzes, seven Indian artifacts, and 25 Lakota items to their communities of origin. SPONSORED The Print Center Announces A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures With Carmen WinantOn view in Philadelphia through July 16, the project considers the intersections of image making, domestic violence, and the feminist movement. Learn more. ART & FILM The Beauty of the Ephemeral WorldWhereas the creators of landscape abstractions generally believed their paintings were impervious to time, Lucy Mullican makes artworks that are exposed and susceptible. | John Yau For An Icelandic Conceptual Art Pioneer, Home Was His InspirationBirgir Andrésson was steeped in Iceland's ways and lore, landscape, and history. It was also his complex subject and an energizing force. | Gregory Volk A Cryptic Dance Between Understanding and IncomprehensionRather than dismissing illegibility as a lack of clarity, Steffani Jemison embraces opacity as a strategy that provides other ways of practicing freedom and connection. | Allison Conner SPONSORED New Artist-run Platform LA ESCUELA___ Offers Free Programs and Open CallsArtists from across the Americas are collaborating on this open-access platform for radical learning and collective making in public spaces. Learn more. Maggi Hambling's Visceral Abstractions Reflect Environmental DestructionHambling’s paintings nudge viewers to consider what we will be losing if humankind continues on its current path, and how much we’ve already lost. | Ilana Novick Abstract Art in the Southwest Is as Vast as the Region’s TerrainThe exhibition is a compelling, if at times dissonant, examination of the formal and material possibilities at the heart of abstraction. | Scotti Hill A Film Follows Wayward Lovers in the 13th Arrondissement of ParisDrawing on several short stories by graphic novelist Adrian Tomine, the film pins down many of the odder elements of contemporary dating. | Dan Schindel IN MEMORIAM Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022) Ann Hutchinson Guest (1918-2022) Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022) MOST POPULAR Montpelier Fires Staffers Who Advocated for the Descendants of Enslaved PeopleThese Stunning Roman Mosaics Were Hidden Under Croatian StreetsRuth Bader Ginsburg's Personal Art Collection Is Up for AuctionYour Venice Biennale Bingo Card Has ArrivedWhy Does Instagram Think My Artwork is Soliciting Sex?
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