"I'm Not Your Mother"

November 25, 2022

Good morning. ☁️ Today marks the sacred American holiday of Black Friday. I'm joking, of course, but instead of helping inflate Jeff Bezos's coffers even more, why not support artists in your community? Check out our report on "Artists Sunday" to learn how.

Also today, Tsai Ming-liang's "Slow Cinema," Required Reading, and a New York show about the dangers of feminizing nature, wonderfully titled I'm Not Your Mother.

— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor

Tsai Ming-liang's "Slow Cinema" Contrasts the Bustle of Modern Life

Tsai’s style is the opposite of boring; in demanding the viewer’s attention, he allows for incredible moments of human connection and discovery. | Dan Schindel

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

A painting by Elizabeth Steingass, one of many artists participating in Artists Sunday this year (via ElizabethSteingass.com)

Americans flock to retail stores on Black Friday and websites on Cyber Monday, but a new initiative is asking buyers to add another destination to their holiday shopping itinerary: the storefronts of local artists on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

Photographer Chris Sherman developed the concept of “Artists Sunday” in 2019, after noticing a bump in sales on that day in November. Over 4,000 artists have signed on to the event, with a nifty online directory listing paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and much more.

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PAFA’s Brodsky Center Presents New Editions by Zoë Charlton and Nell Painter

The collaborative paper- and printmaking workshop at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia publishes new works by resident artists. Learn more.

ART & MORE

Paintings of Half-Submerged Animals Foretell an Unsettling Future

Lisa Ericson renders her real-world subjects beautifully, but the situations in which we find them are uncanny, menacing, and unexpected. | Sarah Rose Sharp

Whose Mother Is Nature Anyway?

Contemporary society in the United States normalizes the idea of the exhausted mother, so why wouldn’t mother nature be equally exhausted? | Annabel Keenan

Required Reading

This week, arts orgs and the war for talent, importance of house museums, the 125 most borrowed books in Brooklyn, the history of listicles, and more. | Hrag Vartanian and Lakshmi Rivera Amin

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TRANSITIONS

Sheila Isham and the estates of Norman Carton and Albert Kotin are now represented by Hollis Taggart.

Kathleen Goncharov is now represented by Olympia.

Che Lovelace is now represented by Nicola Vassell Gallery.

Taqralik Partridge was named associate curator of Indigenous art with a focus on Inuit exhibitions and acquisitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Suhanya Raffel was elected 2023–25 president of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Alex Brown was named Art Educator of the Year by the North Carolina Art Education Association.

Divya Mehra won the Sobey Art Award.

Grace Ndiritu won the Jarman Award.

Queer|Art announced its annual awards. Alexis De Veaux won the Pamela Sneed Award, Wendi Moore-O’Neal received the prize in Sustained Achievement, and stefa marin alarcon received the prize in Recent Work.

Hyperallergic named Angelina Lippert, Kelli Morgan, Dakota Noot, Beya Othmani, and Sadaf Padder as recipients of the 2022–23 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators. Read more on Hyperallergic.

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