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Good morning. ☁️ Today, Twitter will be banning photos of people posted without consent, the complete films of Michael Snow are coming to New York, and reviews of Wifredo Lam, Sonia Gechtoff, and more.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Not Quite the Wifredo Lam Show That's Needed Now

Wifredo Lam developed a style that dances between figuration and abstraction, but the selected compositions at Pace gallery tend to repeat. | Seph Rodney

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Vermeer's "Girl With a Pear Earring" enforcing Twitter's new policy. (edit by Valentina Di Liscia for Hyperallergic)

Twitter has announced a momentous new policy that will ban the sharing of “private media, such as images or videos of private individuals” without the consent of the person depicted.

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Tamil-Canadian Artist Shan Vincent de Paul’s NFT Collection Has a Twist

These multimedia works debuting on Voice include a “Death Mechanism” and allow fans to collect the artist’s origin story, told specifically for the metaverse. Learn more.

ART & FILM

Getting to Know an Overlooked Pioneer of Bay Area Abstraction

The art world has paid attention to other artists from the same era, but we have not done the same with Sonia Gechtoff, and it is time that we did. | John Yau

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Dawn DeDeaux Connects Social Justice and Environmentalism in a Retrospective at the New Orleans Museum of Art

In a retrospective on view at NOMA, Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds demonstrates the artist’s longstanding concern with the most pressing issues of our time. Learn more.

The Complete Works of Influential Experimental Filmmaker Michael Snow Come to New York

Anthology Film Archives’ complete retrospective of the influential Canadian experimental filmmaker includes many exceptionally rare titles. | Forrest Cardamenis

Love, Art, And Politics Intertwined

These four artists dig into the cultural and geologic history of the enclave of Staten Island to produce work that resonates with the core of bell hooks​'s​ commendation to love. | Charolette Kent

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Washington University in St. Louis Announces MFA Virtual Open House

On December 13, learn about the Sam Fox School’s graduate programs in Visual Art and Illustration & Visual Culture, as well as the university’s competitive financial aid packages. Learn more.

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As acceptance of digital art grows, there is also a need to validate quality and recognize artists who explore radical ideas and achieve creative breakthroughs. | Anindya Sen

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Breuer’s Bohemia is centered around the life and work of Marcel Breuer, but touches upon an entire cohort of Modernist influencers. | Sarah Rose Sharp

The Penalty Presidency

A conversation with Richard Kraft about his artist book in which he created penalty flags for nearly 10,000 of Trump’s misdeeds. | Louis Bury

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