| Good morning. Ahead of the Frick Collection’s public reopening in two days, Hyperallergic’s Editor in Chief Hrag Vartanian asks: “If museums are ideally places for education (in fact, their nonprofit status hinges on this), then what do we do if the fictions spun by the benefactors and their legacy projects impede that mission?” His essay shines a much-needed critical light on a collection of Vermeers and van Dycks so glitzy, housed in a Fifth Avenue mansion so sumptuous, that our eyes too often glaze over the history that made it possible. Also today, Katy Perry went to space and she liked it — but the internet, to say the least, did not. Staff Writer Isa Farfan rounds up the best memes about the pop star’s hilariously brief excursion beyond Earth’s orbit on a Jeff Bezos-funded rocket, because we all need a little levity. Read on for shows to see in NYC this week, Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad on an exhibition of titanic women at James Fuentes, a string of historic Frank Lloyd Wright houses for sale in Michigan, and a new biography of Gala Dalí that expounds her outsized role in the Surrealist movement. — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | | |
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 | | The newly renovated Fifth Avenue institution, which houses a treasure trove by any calculation, is a time capsule with a lot to teach us about our own historical moment. | Hrag Vartanian |
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ART IN NYC |  | | From Aaron Gilbert’s take on capitalism to Weegee’s distortions of celebrity culture, these exhibitions all critique or reflect the world around us. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, Faye Hirsch, and Julia Curl |
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|  | | One lesson of this compact, extraordinary exhibition of feminist art is that if you’re being ignored, you can do whatever you want — so take up space. | Natalie Haddad |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | Located in the heart of LA’s Little Tokyo neighborhood, the museum embraces the Japanese-American experience in all its permutations, including aspects that other persecuted and marginalized communities can recognize. Learn more |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC |  | | In Surreal, Michèle Gerber Klein asks us to confront the unjust eclipse of Gala’s legacy by that of her husband, Salvador, whose career she brought to fruition. | Hall W. Rockefeller |
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|  | | The residences, priced between $850K and $2M, were designed in the 1940s within just a short distance of each other. | Maya Pontone |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | The work in this show represents the synthesis of our graduate candidates’ experience in the Master of Fine Arts program at MECA&D. Learn more |
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 | | As the internet reminds us, Perry’s comically brief journey on Jeff Bezos’s rocket flopped in the public eye as hard as her seventh studio album. | Isa Farfan |
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| FROM THE ARCHIVE |  | | Fukase’s obsession with photographing the people he was close to overwhelmed his subjects and eventually drove them away — so he turned to cats. | Lauren Moya Ford |
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