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December 23, 2022Good morning. 🌧️ “So often, contained within the little salty bubble of a single tear, we find the big lessons we’re not yet ready to accept,” writes AX Mina in her review of the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America at Queens College in New York. That’s just one example of the clarity and beauty of Mina’s writing voice. Do yourself a favor and read her piece. Also today, a gingerbread bakeoff at the Museum of the City of New York yields impressive results, a new sex museum comes to Miami, the aesthetic abomination of the Bolsonaro era in Brazil finally comes to an end, Required Reading, and more. Stay warm, everybody. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor CLICK THIS TO REMAIN A SUBSCRIBERClicking on links is the only way for us to know if you are still reading (and enjoying) our newsletters. If you don’t click on any links within the next month, we’ll remove you from our list and you’ll stop receiving our newsletters.Click here to let us know you are still interested in receiving our newsletters. Thanks! Asian-American Identity Through Quiet, Ordinary GesturesSometimes, exhibitions about identity demand too much of those bearing the identities, expecting them to speak explicitly to their experience. | AX Mina Support Hyperallergic’s independent journalismBecome a member today to help keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. Become a MemberWHAT’S HAPPENING An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Big Apple in gingerbread: the most seasonal (and tastiest) medium of all.The Museum of Sex reveals plans for an expansion to Florida in 2023. As Jair Bolsonaro moves his art out of Brazil’s presidential palace, the internet remembers the “aesthetic crisis” that marked his tenure. University of the Arts’s Dynamic Grad Programs Advance Your CreativityExplore a career change, evolve your craft, and strengthen your professional experience. Learn more. LATEST IN ART Nellie Mae Rowe’s Story of FreedomReally Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe is brimming with examples of the artist’s imaginative allegorical art. | Ekin Erkan Required ReadingThis week, a mysterious portrait of Joan Didion, considering Carolee Schneemann, privatizing libraries, Dalit discrimination, the “great internet grievance war,” and more. | Hrag Vartanian and Lakshmi Rivera Amin TRANSITIONS Carlos Basualdo was appointed deputy director and chief curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Jessica Todd Smith was appointed director of curatorial initiatives. Salma Tuqan was appointed director of Nottingham Contemporary. Aay Preston-Myint was named executive director of SF Camerawork. Tsione Wolde-Michael was named executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Adrienne Edwards, Candice Hopkins, and Eva Respini will curate the 2023 Armory Show. AWARDS & ACCOLADES Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, in partnership with the 7|G Foundation, announced Pao Houa Her as the recipient of the 2023–24 Next Step Award. Deborah Willis was announced as the recipient of the Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art, awarded by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. FROM OUR STORE Hyperallergic Store Gift CardDoing a little last-minute shopping? We’ve got you covered with gift cards to our online store, where you can find art-inspired accessories, home goods, and more. MOST POPULAR What’s the Weirdest Ornament You’d Hang on Your Tree?Philip Pearlstein, Whose Paintings “Rescued the Human Figure,” Dies at 98Vandals Destroy 30,000-Year-Old Indigenous Rock Art in AustraliaBehind the Scenes of Remaking a Feminist MilestoneHow a Landmark Feminist Show Got Erased From Collective Memory
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