RIP Cursive

September 23, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Our stories today include an atypically religious holiday stamp by the US Postal Service, a ban on AI-generated images, a guerrilla campaign against tenant evictions in NYC, new revelations about the murder of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, and more.

Also, John Yau writes about painter Jordan Casteel's new show, and writer and museum security guard Dereck Stafford Mangus explains what damage museum rentals (weddings, galas, etc.) can cause to priceless artworks.

Finally, youth today can't read cursive, let alone write in it, 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓲𝓽'𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓽𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓼𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓵𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝔂𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮. 𝓗𝓸𝔀 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓰𝓸𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓽𝓮𝔁𝓽𝓼 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓫𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓼? 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮'𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴'𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰.

— 𝓗𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓶 𝓑𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪, 𝓢𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓸𝓻 𝓔𝓭𝓲𝓽𝓸𝓻

Murdered Palestinian Journalist Was Deliberately Targeted by Israeli Forces, Report Finds

An investigation by Forensic Architecture and Al-Haq into the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh looked at previously unseen footage, unpublished autopsy reports, witness accounts, and drone photography, among other evidence. | Jasmine Liu

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IN THE NEWS

Posters in Long Island City, Queens (all photos courtesy Tomato Season)

Posters by an anonymous collective of NYC tenants call out the city marshals’ role in perpetuating homelessness.

The USPS’snew “Virgin and Child” Christmas stamp is a departure from the more secular holiday stamps of years past.

Getty Images has banned the upload and sale of all content generated using AI art tools.

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Poster House Presents Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes

Curated by RJ Rushmore, this NYC exhibition features David Wojnarowicz, Swoon, and other artists who use posters to question beauty standards, capitalism, and ownership of public space. Learn more.

LATEST REVIEWS

Eroticism Beyond the Flesh

Eros Rising at New York’s Institute for Studies on Latin American Art demonstrates that eroticism might be closer to the cosmic than to the terrestrial in its infinite manifestations. | Carmen Graciela Díaz

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New Jersey’s Largest Art Tour Returns to Jersey City

The 32nd annual Jersey City Art & Studio Tour features over 1,000 artists at more than 140 locations from September 29 through October 2. Learn more.

Tackling the Myth of the American West

Stephanie Syjuco’s exhibition Double Vision points to the role that museums play in perpetuating narratives about the people, places, and events of the American West. | Lauren Moya Ford

Jordan Casteel Won't Rest on Her Laurels

I was curious to see Casteel’s first exhibition since her New Museum show. I was not disappointed. | John Yau

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ArtFields Offers Over $100,000 in Prizes to Southeastern US Artists

Applications are open through November 1 for this annual art competition and exhibition that turns Lake City, South Carolina, into a living art gallery. Learn more.

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Museum Rentals Are a Recipe for Disaster

This is what happens when boozed-up patrons party next to priceless mosaics, statues, and vases. | Dereck Stafford Mangus

Required Reading

This week, a Keith Haring drawing from his bedroom, reflecting on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, you're not descended from Vikings, the death of cursive, and more. | Hrag Vartanian

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TRANSITIONS

David Breslin was named curator in charge of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Queena Ko was appointed director of Education at the Noguchi Museum.

Lara Yeager-Crasselt was named curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Leslie Cozzi was named curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

The City University of New York has named the recipients of Social Practice CUNY's Faculty, Student, and Actionist Fellowships. A complete list of fellows can be found here.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced the 2022 recipients of its Joan Mitchell Fellowship: Teresa Baker, Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Dawn Cerny, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Bethany Collins, Shane Darwent, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, Luis Flores, Scott Hocking, Virginia Jaramillo, Henry Payer, Jr., Rocío Rodríguez, Leslie Smith III, Awilda Sterling, and Chiffon Thomas.

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has announced its 2022 fellows. They include artists Camille Acker, Maia Chao, Sabaah Folayan, Denice Frohman, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Jesse Krimes, James Maurelle, Odili Donald Odita, Asali Solomon, James Allister Sprang, Ada Trillo, and Cesar Viveros.

Cauleen Smith and vanessa german received the Heinz Award for the Arts.

J. Meejin Yoon received the 2022 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts.

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