Revising the Language of Abstraction

Good morning. ☁️ Today, an art school in California closes after 169 years, a project challenges depi

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Good morning. ☁️ Today, an art school in California closes after 169 years, a project challenges depictions of a community as “the most segregated in Britain,” and reviews of Brenna Youngblood and the new Hemingway documentary.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Raw Portraits of UK Village Win Top Prize at Sony World Photography Awards Craig Easton collaborated with writer Abdul Aziz Hafiz to challenge depictions of a small community in Lancashire as “the most segregated in Britain.” Sarah Rose Sharp

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The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco announced a new cohort of 10 Bay Area artists who will join the organization for a year-long fellowship. Mills College in Oakland will stop admitting new students in the fall of this year and expects that 2023 is the last year it will give out degrees.

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Brenna Youngblood Revises the Language of Abstraction Youngblood’s paintings would probably make Piet Mondrian yelp. Allison Conner

SPONSORED Yale Center for British Art Presents a Conversation With Shirin Neshat On Friday, April 23, attend a lively and inspiring conversation between one of today’s most notable artists and Yale research scholar Oksana Chefranova.

An Epic-Length Documentary Tackles Ernest Hemingway Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s latest PBS series does a good job of telling the writer’s life story, but doesn’t probe his thornier aspects. Hrag Vartanian

A Documentary Rectifies Bill Traylor's Omission From History Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts works with the scant available details of the artist’s life to tell his story. Sophia Stewart

SPONSORED Mana Contemporary in Jersey City Presents "Implied Scale: Confronting the Enormity of Climate Change" The five-artist exhibition will be accompanied by a roster of public programming hosted at all of Mana’s locations in Jersey City, Chicago, and Miami.

"Cups of Nun Chai" Sheds Light on the Kashmir Often Missing From Headlines Alana Hunt’s emphasis on everyday experiences, shared over a cup of tea, counters the normalization of state violence. Majid Maqbool

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