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September 15, 2022 β’ View in browserGood morning. π€οΈ So, MoMA seems to be planning to enter the NFT space with the support of a foundation's planned auction sale of $70 million worth of art. My advice to MoMA: Please donβt! Nobody wants to see crappy PDF art. I have a better idea: Use the money to pay decent wages to your frontline workers, whose salaries start at $36,131, or make admission free, or fund other needed structural changes to become a more equitable, welcoming museum. In other stories today, Virginia Dwan, the art patron who shaped the land art movement in the United States in the 1960's and '70s, is no longer with us, and have you heard of the viral AI-generated "Loab" images? Warning: These images cannot be unseen. β Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor When Will Museums Tell the Whole Truth About Their Antiquities?Some US museums will overlook the dubious origins of acquisitions if it suits their purposes. | Elizabeth Marlowe SPONSORED WHAT'S HAPPENING Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Les Fraises" (ca. 1905) is one of 29 paintings and sculptures on long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art that will head to Sotheby's this fall. (courtesy Sotheby's) A store of 29 works valued at around $70M will go to auction this fall to support MoMAβs βambitious goals in digital media and technology.β The city of Paris will turn off the Eiffel Towerβs famous lights an hour earlier to conserve power as Russia tightens its grip on natural gas resources. Workers at Dia Art Foundation join Local UAW 2110 after a landslide victory, with only six employees voting in opposition. Gallerist and art patron Virginia Dwan died earlier this month at 90. SPONSORED LATEST IN ART Painting Against the Tyranny of FlatnessKorea's Dansaekhwa artists eschewed the idea of art-about-art and commodity culture in favor of an abstract art imbued with traces of the struggle for liberation and cultural identity. | John Yau SPONSORED KMAC Museum Presents the 2022 KMAC Triennial: Divided We FallOn view in Louisville, Kentucky, until November 6, the triennialβs second edition exhibits work by 11 artists responding to current socio-political issues in the United States. Learn more. The Environmental Crisis Comes HomeIdeal Home captures the disorientation of a moment in which environmental crises have pierced the domestic sphere. | Jordan Eddy SPONSORED Smithsonian American Art Museum Invites Applications for 2023β2024 Research FellowshipsResidential fellowships at SAAM and its Renwick Gallery provide funding, collections access, and professional advancement to scholars researching the art, craft, and visual culture of the US. Learn more. MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC The Enigma at the Heart of Patricia Highsmith's StoryFrom her personal writings, along with fragments of her work and recollections of friends and family, Loving Highsmith constructs a view of the author that is more intimate than most. | Dan Schindel SPONSORED Stanley Museum of Art Opens Homecoming, the First Show in Its New BuildingThis exhibition at the University of Iowaβs museum features some 500 artists, from works by household names like Pollock and Motherwell to art that has rarely, if ever, been shown. Learn more. Loab, the Internetβs Latest Urban Legend, Is Worse Than AnythingThrough βsome kind of emergent statistical accident,β an AI image generator birthed a terrifying image of a woman. And she continues to haunt us, again and again. | Sarah Rose Sharp IN MEMORIAM Emanoel AraΓΊjo (1940-2022) Virginia Dwan (1931-2022) Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) Roxanne Lowit (1942-2022) Diane Noomin (1947-2022) Support Hyperallergic's independent journalismBecome a member today to help keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. Become a MemberMOST POPULAR The Misgendering of Joan of ArcBird Photographer of the Year Winners Capture Feathered WondersArtists Tell Instagram: We're Done!Marina AbramoviΔ, Mobs, and the Cult of the HeroBharti Kherβs Monumental βAncestorβ Sculpture Watches Over Central Park
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