| Good morning. First of all, we’d like to thank the hundreds of you who tuned in for our event about artist studio visits with Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian, Brooklyn Museum Curator Kimberli Gant, Forge Projects Director and Curator Candice Hopkins, and Fondazione Sandretto Curator Caroline Liou! A recording will be available to members in a couple of days. Join today to support our work and get invites to future events. Reflecting on the last day of Dalit History Month, illustrator and poet Siddhesh Gautam — known on social media as Bakery Prasad — pens a stirring essay on anti-caste movements and artists’ role in them, reminding us that Dalit history extends far beyond the boundaries of a single month. And don’t miss Jesse Lambert’s comic on his longtime friendship with artist Laylah Ali. In it, the two of them drift across the UMass Amherst campus; they talk shop, recollect, and pore over her survey at the museum. It’s a special piece. Also today, we’ve got both a snapshot of our contemporary moment in the form of Daniel Larkin’s review of the School of Visual Arts MFA show, and a meditation on New York City history via Scott Schomburg’s review of photographs by Barbara Mensch of the Brooklyn Bridge in a courthouse in the borough. We’ve also got a review of Alice Coltrane’s “cool trance,” as Nereya Otieno puts it, in a multi-medium exhibition at the Hammer Museum. And in news, a nearly 2,000-year-old looted Greco-Roman statue embroiled in a legal battle between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Manhattan DA goes on its final display before repatriation. — Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor |
