Dots for Days: Kusama Blooms at the New York Botanical Garden

Good morning. ☁️ Today, Kusama blooms at the New York Botanical Garden, the Louvre digitizes 482,000

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Good morning. ☁️ Today, Kusama blooms at the New York Botanical Garden, the Louvre digitizes 482,000 artworks, and William Kentridge at Marian Goodman Gallery.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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Dots for Days: Kusama Blooms at the New York Botanical Garden Cosmic Nature invites viewers to celebrate the artist’s joyful, creative energy after a year of loss and grieving. Bedatri D. Choudhury

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Anonymous artist, "Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs" (ca. 1575–1600), oil on wood (© 2017 RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Tony Querrec)

The Louvre digitized nearly half a million artworks from its collection. Remember the anti-racist activist group that ransomed a Confederate monument last month? They made good on their promise to turn it into a toilet (and used a Confederate flag as toilet paper).

SPONSORED Explore the Concept of Awareness With the Rubin Museum’s "Brainwave" Program Series Attend an online talk, workshop, or experience, and learn how to reconnect with yourself, your surroundings, and your communities.

How 2020 changed William Kentridge Viewed in 2021, Kentridge’s preference for black and white strikes as an urging to see issues of morality more clearly. Daniel Larkin

How to Build Resilient Black Arts Organizations For three and a half years, I ran Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn while dealing with issues of precarity. Rob Fields

SPONSORED Celebrate Southern Art at South Carolina’s ArtFields The annual art competition and exhibition in Lake City, South Carolina awards over $100,000 in cash prizes to artists from across the Southeast. On view April 23 through May 1.

An Elder Takes a Stand Against a Lesotho Dam Project Lesotho’s Oscar submission This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is a stirring look at resistance to injustice done in the name of “progress.” Dan Schindel

A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Illinois, New York, and Connecticut. Elisa Wouk Almino

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