Weekly This week we all needed a laugh, and Jens Haaning’s decision to take a museum’s money and conceptually “run” ignited laughter and conversation around the world (though we’re still dying to know how this saga will end, as the museum is still expecting for the money to be returned). What would you do? I’m actually undecided, though I do think Haaning just gave the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art a huge gift with the related publicity (definitely worth more than the roughly $84,000 they paid him), not to mention the fact that we’ve all now finally heard of that place (I’m dying to visit). I think this project may be something we’ll be talking about for years to come. Other stories in this edition you shouldn’t miss include artist Carrie Mae Weems’s visual response to Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” a report on not one but TWO mermaid museums that have come ashore in the US, and reviews of Philip Guston, Chakaia Booker, New Time: Art and Feminism in the 21st Century, and much more. Also, our picks for what to see this month in New York and LA. — Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief Jens Haaning, Take the Money And Run (2021) (Courtesy the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art) SPONSORED This annual festival celebrating creative uses of glass returns to Seattle this October with more than 60 local artists. Learn more. NEWS THIS WEEK The Mermaid Museum in Berlin, Maryland (courtesy Alyssa Maloof) Both self-funded women-led projects, two separate mermaid museums emerge at opposite ends of the United States. Kerry James Marshall will design new windows for the National Cathedral, replacing formal panels that commemorated two Confederate generals. Writer Rona Akbari and artist Aishwarya Srivastava initiate a print sale fundraiser to support Afghan nationals facing illness and starvation. The right-wing leader of Madrid laments the Indigenous movement as an “attack against Spain.” WHAT TO SEE THIS MONTH IN NYC & LA New York: Arts organizations offer up a cornucopia of compelling exhibitions and performances this month, from MoMA PS1’s quinquennial survey to a presentation of the late Winfred Rembert’s intricately tooled leather paintings. Los Angeles: Artists uncover the biases of AI, a show mines Japanese animation beyond manga, and two solo shows spotlight local artists June Edmonds and Pippa Garner. LATEST IN ART Philip Guston, The Studio (1969), oil on canvas, 48 x 42 inches (© The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy the Estate and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson) "This is one of the points I suggest we think about when looking at these paintings: the persistence of self-righteous individuals hiding behind ideologies both inside and outside the art world." SPONSORED After students around the world responded to online classes by the historic art school, the League launched e-telier™ to elevate its digital learning experience. Learn more. Linda Stark, Stigmata (2011), oil on canvas over panel, 36 x 36 inches (image courtesy BAMPFA) The Many Feminisms of Contemporary Art
Bridget Quinn on New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive."I’d say New Time is urgent — a much overused word — but urgent doesn’t begin to express how much we need what it offers in our time of catastrophic emergencies." SPONSORED This fully-funded three-year graduate program in Southern New England supports a broad range of art making, exemplified by the work of its newest students. Learn more. ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC Cover Frida Kahlo. The Complete Paintings, by Luis-Martín Lozano, Andrea Kettenmann, and Marina Vázquez Ramos, published by Taschen New Frida Kahlo Monograph Moves Beyond Individual Genius Narrative
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