Jennifer Packer Shows Us the Responsibility of Seeing

February 9, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, a former staffer has filed a lawsuit against the owners of the Gladstone Gallery, the Putin-Macron meeting memes are funny, and reviews of Jennifer Packer, a Transcendental Painting exhibition in New Mexico, ritual Masonic Objects in Texas, and a new documentary that resurfaces three minutes of film from a pre-Holocaust Polish Jewish town.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Jennifer Packer Shows Us the Responsibility of Seeing

Most everything in this show is unsure, a maybe, might be there, might not be, could fulfill your hopes, might leave them by the side of the road. | Seph Rodney

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

Social media responded to a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron with an outpouring of satirical memes (via Twitter)

An outpouring of satirical memes highlights the absurdity of Putin and Macron's bizarre Kremlin meeting.

Poems by Agha Shahid Ali and Timothy Liu shine within subway cars and stations in the MTA Arts & Design “Poetry in Motion” series.

A former staffer files a lawsuit accusing art dealer Barbara Gladstone and her senior partner of abuse, retaliation, and toxic workplace practices.

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ART & FILM

Three Minutes of Film Are All That Remain of a Polish Jewish Town Before the Holocaust

What can be learned from just a short clip from a 1938 vacation film? The documentary Three Minutes — A Lengthening shows that it can be quite a bit. | Dan Schindel

Transcendental Painting Lives on in New Mexico and Beyond

The group of self-identified idealists, active until 1942, created nonrepresentational paintings of and from the creative imagination. | Nancy Zastudil

The Secretive, Ritual Objects of Masonic Groups

Though masonic fraternal groups have existed for centuries, their rites and methods have long been shrouded in secrecy. | Lauren Moya Ford

Appreciating the Performative Quality of Computer Generated Art

Can electronic generative art be interpreted as performance with machines instead of bodies? What if we are too focused on results, rather than the process? | Filippo Lorenzin

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