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.
| 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 | | |
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| | Especially for artists, this month is a tactical intervention. A crack in the Brahminical fabric of Indian memory. It’s not a request for inclusion; it’s a declaration of rupture. | Siddhesh Gautam |
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IN THE NEWS | | | After a months-long legal battle, a headless Greco-Roman bronze has gone on its final display at the Cleveland Museum of Art before its repatriation to Turkey this July. Italian police have seized eight helicopters from a company offering aerial tours of Pompeii, alleging a laundry list of safety and operations violations. |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | An exhibition of the late musician and devoted spiritual leader effectively incorporates music, performance, and visual art. | Nereya Otieno |
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SPONSORED | | | | | The Santa Fe museum actively cultivates the soil for current and future generations of Native artists to thrive, a duty that extends far beyond preservation and display. Learn more |
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| | The photographer’s vision of New York appears romantic, but she knows that the people who built it are under constant threat of being swept aside by change. | Scott Schomburg |
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| | | The artists in this year’s cohort are responding in their own way to our uncertain times, with some offering possibilities for blazing a trail ahead. | Daniel Larkin |
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| COMICS | | | Laylah Ali, whose drawing survey is on view at UMass Amherst, has a knack for addressing what artists stay silent about. | Jesse Lambert |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | Taking inspiration from Black History Month, Dalit artists and activists fighting for caste abolition celebrate April as a month of resistance and pride. | Sadaf Padder |
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