September 17, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌧️ Today, the romance of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas as told through objects, LA’s premier encyclopedic museum receives a gift of 109 Indigenous artworks, and an antique collector asks if something can be racist and beautiful.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

A Collector of Antiques Asks: "Can Something Be Racist and Also Be Beautiful?"

In the Blactiquing Space, curator and collector Kevin Jones presents deeply fraught objects with emotion, connection, and care. | Sarah Rose Sharp

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

Margaret Tafoya, “Wedding Vase,” 20th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Gift of the Reiter Family (photo © Museum Associates/LACMA)

LACMA receives 109 Indigenous American artworks from the Reiter Family Collection, including 82 ceramic pieces by the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest.

The New Art Dealers Alliance is opening a fair booth-sized project space in Manhattan’s Chinatown — its inaugural exhibition opens on September 18.

ART & PERFORMANCE

Objects that Help Tell the Story of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas’s Romance

The 40-year relationship that unfolded between Toklas and Stein became the bedrock of Paris’s artistic avant-garde. | Sarah Rose Sharp

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ArtYard’s Living Exhibition Unfolds in Real Time in New Jersey

Over the course of three months, the resident artists in Going to the Meadow will collaborate and create with a curated set of continually changing materials. Learn more.

Women Artists Are in the Spotlight in West Palm Beach

Fifty works, all created by women, are brought together across time and media as the Norton Museum of Art reckons with the art world’s patriarchal past and present. | Salomé Gómez-Upegui

Jess Dobkin, a Performance Artist With a Unique Sense of Humor

Dobkin caught the attention of critics early on with her quirky and occasionally self-deprecating works, which often center lesbian identity. | Chris Dupuis

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Artsper Looks to the Future of Accessible Fine Art

With over 170,000 original pieces starting at less than $100, this online contemporary art marketplace has something for everyone. Learn more.

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In 1940s Japan, a Trophy Wife Becomes a Spy

In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, a woman becomes embroiled in exposing Japanese war crimes in Manchuria. | Ren Scateni

A View of Oxford That Evades Its “Ethos of ‘Intellectualism’”

“Oxford has a complex social divide that tends to be ignored,” says photographer Arturo Soto. | Lauren Moya Ford

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Albrecht Dürer Celestial Map Scarf

The perfect gift for fans of art and astrology is here at last! This light and breezy silk twill scarf is adorned by constellations in the night sky, evoking a famous woodblock print created by the German Renaissance painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer in 1515.

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Nairy Baghramian was awarded the 2022 Nasher Prize. | New York Times
James Turrell and Sebastião Salgado were awarded the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale. | ARTnews
Anthony White is the winner of the 2021 Betty Bowen Award.

TRANSITIONS

Horace D. Ballard was appointed associate curator of American art at the Harvard Art Museums. | Harvard Gazette
Klaus Biesenbach was named director of Neue Nationalgalerie and the Museum of the 20th Century. | New York Times
Christophe Leribault was appointed director of Musée d’Orsay. | Art Newspaper

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