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February 24, 2022 • View in browserGood morning. ☁️ Today, a museum director in the UK has been fired following a pressure campaign by a pro-Israel group, LaGuardia airport’s latest terminal will be filled with work by six prominent contemporary artists, and the final Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellow, Jeremy Dennis, has published his first article about Indigenous resilience and futurism on Long Island. Thanks to everyone who has been attending our events with the Fellows. Our final event will be this coming Tuesday, March 1. Today's newsletter also features the return of A View from the Easel. Please consider contributing a photo of your own studio and encourage your friends to do the same. We welcome ALL studios (even if it’s just your laptop). Find more information about contributing in the post. — Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief Indigenous Resilience and Futurism in The HamptonsIn addition to predicting the coming of colonization, environmental destruction, and capitalism, Indigenous artists have also envisioned a world where these things never happened. | Jeremy Dennis SPONSORED WHAT'S HAPPENING Matthew Teitelbaum, director at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Issa Konfourou, permanent representative of Mali to the UN, with the objects being transferred back to the Republic of Mali on February 8, 2022. (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Two ancient Djenné terracotta figurines, believed to be illicitly removed and trafficked in the 1980s, will return to Mali. La Guardia Airport’s revamped Terminal C will feature new, site-specific artworks by six New York artists. The University of Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery director has been reportedly forced out of his job following a pressure campaign by a pro-Israel group. SPONSORED Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity Opens at the Worcester Art MuseumFeaturing work by more than 40 artists including Byron Kim, Lorna Simpson, and more, this exhibition considers contemporary visual methods of addressing identity. Learn more. ART & FILM David Diao's Long Search for Painting's Many IdentitiesOne key to understanding Diao’s art is that he has long worked with a reductive geometric vocabulary, while always pushing back against any of postmodernism’s reductive narratives. | John Yau A View from the EaselThis week, artist studios in North Carolina, Illinois, Maryland, and Caen, France. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin SPONSORED Angela Davis — Seize the Time Is on View at Rutgers’ Zimmerli Art MuseumFeaturing rarely seen archival materials alongside artwork, the ambitions of this exhibition in New Brunswick, NJ, go beyond introducing visitors to the American activist and intellectual. Learn more. ‘You Should Feel Disturbed’ — Talking to the Directors of AtticaIn the wake of the film’s nomination for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry speak to Hyperallergic about the uprising’s ongoing relevance. | Dan Schindel SPONSORED A Theatrical Tapestry at the Public Theater Explores Age and Asian American IdentityIn Out of Time, co-presented with the National Asian American Theater Company, the first all-Asian American cast over the age of 60 performs new monologues by award-winning playwrights. Learn more. ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC How Chronicling Street Art Works Against a Culture of CommodificationThis culture industry perfects the mechanisms for the wholesale destruction of art not beholden to establishment narratives. | Yoav Litvin What Did the Onset of the Age of the Mass Shooting Mean to Americans?Colette Brooks demonstrates how history unites us in both our private and public lives. | Melissa Holbrook Pierson Become a member today to support our independent journalism. MOST POPULAR Kamoda Shōji, One of Japan’s Most Celebrated Ceramic ArtistsPrehistoric Drum Found in Child's Grave Dubbed “Most Important” Finding in a CenturyHow Bosch Experienced his Own Kind of HellTate Britain Will Commission Artist to “Critically Engage” With Racist Mural140+ Artists and Scholars Call on NYC to Reverse Relocation of Roosevelt Statue to North Dakota
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