This week was rough. That is, unless you’re one of more than 73 million Americans who voted Donald Trump back into the White House. Already fatigued by the deluge of banal postmortems and I told yous online, we decided to do something different here at Hyperallergic — speak our hearts through art. Read below what our editorial staff came up with. You may find it cathartic.
In other news, we reported on the tragic deaths of British abstract painter Sarah Cunningham and Brooklyn-based artist and writer Sabina Khorramdel. Also, see how you can contribute to humanitarian aid in Lebanon by buying discounted photography prints.
Other highlights this week include Sháńdíín Brown’s report from Jeffrey Gibson’s three-day symposium at the US pavilion in Venice, Palestinian dress historian Wafa Ghnaim on how she resisted erasure at the Brooklyn Museum and won, and a new comics series about the lives of artists and activists fighting for affordable housing in New York City. Also, don’t forget to try your hand at the monthly Hyperallergic Art Crossword. The answers are right between these pages.
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| | As the realities of a second Trump term set in, Hyperallergic staff reflect on the role art and images play in the world we’re a part of. The essays below are personal meditations in which we hope you’ll find some insight and solace. Reflecting on works by Joyce Kozloff, Mary Nohl, Ai Weiwei, and Elizabeth Catlett, Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian digs deeper into what it means to be radical in 2024. Senior Editor Hakim Bishara looks at a photograph taken by Stephanie Keith at a rally for Gaza and Lebanon and how it, despite it all, sparks a “joy of solidarity, of purpose and community.’ Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad unpacks on Divya Mehra’s drawing series The End of You and how it’s become a “metaphor for the destructive repercussions of colonialism and systemic racism.” News Editor Valentina Di Liscia shares how Norma I. Quintana’s Forget Me Not project gives her “hope, in this darkest of moments, that art can be transcendent.” Editor Lisa Yin Zhang finds an anti-monument for the current moment in Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Editor Laskhmi Rivera Amin finds comfort in the loved saris that make up Suchitra Mattai’s We are nomads, we are dreamers at Socrates Sculpture Park. Isabella Segalovich on the synagogue of Gwoździec: “Its splendid hues, fantastical illustration, and delightful ornamentation belie the fact that its community had recently rebuilt itself from unimaginable terror.” |
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THIS MONTH'S CROSSWORD | | | | A statue that just ~landed~ on NYC’s High Line, still-life objects, architectural vocab, van Gogh’s prescient physics, and much more. | Natan Last |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | | Emin accomplishes what any great artist must do — turn the sacrificing of privacy into the spark of human connectivity. | Debra Brehmer
She was one of the first filmmakers to make the leap from cinema to museum spaces, which allowed her greater freedom and the pleasure of demanding more viewer participation. | Eurídice Arratia
A retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum conveys that Catlett’s artistic practice was inseparable from her dedication to Black and Mexican revolutionary politics. | Alexandra M. Thomas |
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OPINION | | | Diana Weymar’s embroidered textiles amplify the voices of courageous women in post-Roe v. Wade America. | Katha Pollitt and Diana Weymar
The sense of collective strength throughout the three-day event was as palpable as the beats of the drums during the performances, the rhythms we felt in our gut. | Sháńdíín Brown
On a visit to the Brooklyn Museum on October 7, 2023, I felt proud to see a Palestinian “thobe” like the ones I study. But then I saw the wall label. | Wafa Ghnaim |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | Alvin Ailey, Jesse Krimes, Tina Girouard, Aboriginal bark painting, and more. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, Valentina Di Liscia, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Lisa Yin Zhang, Isabella Segalovich, and Louis Bury
Each of the director’s films adapts a folktale, short story, or novel, or pays tribute to a historical figure — but never in a straightforward way. | Dan Schindel
As a new book shows, the school’s teachings continue to influence creative practices. | Julie Schneider
This week: Civil Rights photography, Chicago’s 1970s abortion network, the Nancy Drew convention, election memes so we can laugh to keep from crying, cinema-dog-raphy, and more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Residencies, grants, open calls, and jobs from RISD, Ucross, the University of Michigan, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. |
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COMICS | | | | Meet the artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing justice movement in New York City. Part one of a series. | Noah Fischer |
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| | | Take a stroll to another world in these Paul Klee-inspired socks, which take their design from his largest work, the mysterious “Insula dulcamara” (1938).
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