Today, we honor the life and immense legacy of Nona Faustine, who passed away on March 20 at the age of 48.
| Good morning. Today, we honor the life and immense legacy of Nona Faustine, who passed away on March 20 at the age of 48. “If we want to talk about our present-day heroes, we need to start with her,” said critic Seph Rodney, one of the countless people Faustine inspired and touched through her work. In the news, Keith Sonderling, Trump’s new appointee overseeing the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has pledged to “restore focus on patriotism,” causing alarm among freedom of expression advocacy groups. Also, a sneak peek at the Yale Center for British Art, which is reopening after a two-year, $16.5 million renovation at the end of the month, and a painting found in poor condition at Pompeii was newly re-attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna. Our reviews today take you all over the world, from Mary Cassatt’s peregrinations around Paris to legendary late musician Ryuichi Sakamoto’s first comprehensive exhibition in his home country of Japan to an exhibition on queering digital art in Los Angeles. But John Yau reveals the bounty found right at home in his review of Catherine Murphy’s drawings and paintings at Lower East Side gallery Peter Freeman, Inc.: “Her formal mastery is devoted to making the ordinary inexplicable,” he writes, “causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we are seeing.” — Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor | | |
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| | In a new book, scholar Ruth E. Caskin emphasizes Cassatt as a distinctly transatlantic artist whose identification with the US and France were deeply entwined. | Sophia Stewart |
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IN THE NEWS | | | Artist Nona Faustine, whose self-portraits memorialized under-recognized narratives and fearlessly confronted violent histories, has died at the age of 48. Thought to be lost to history for centuries, a newly attributed Andrea Mantegna painting has made its way from a church in Pompeii to the Vatican Museums. Trump has sworn in a new director for the (effectively dismantled) Institute of Museum and Library Services, who’s pledged to “restore focus on patriotism.” As the nation’s institutions are attacked from within, the Yale Center for British Art marks its return with works by JMW Turner, a Tracey Emin exhibition, and more. |
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LATEST IN ART | | | The late musical colossus’s first comprehensive exhibition in the nation makes you feel like his spirit is in the room, sitting at the piano. | Douglas Markowitz |
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| | The artist found a way to expand the parameters of observational painting, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we see. | John Yau |
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| | | Queering Digital is a refusal to be silent or retreat from the government’s tyranny through works that assert the artists’ identities and politics. | Renée Reizman |
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| | | With a budget of $3,372.30 — my Roth IRA balance — I found artworks in fish tin cans, a painting that reminded me of Bad Bunny, and more. | Isa Farfan |
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