Good morning! Let's start with a fun story today. Tiernan Morgan writes about the Colony Room, "Lon
| Good morning! Let’s start with a fun story today. Tiernan Morgan writes about the Colony Room, “London’s most infamous private drinking club,” frequented by the likes of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Tracey Emin. “For sixty years,” he writes, “membership was contingent on wit, with prospective members expected to verbally spar with the staff.” It certainly sounds like one of a kind. In your must-read art news, students at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts have taken down their artworks from their MFA show and replaced them with protest signs and letters to the administration. And while most eyes have been on museum losses and layoffs, a new study reveals that galleries have significantly struggled this year. Wishing you all a good week.—Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor | |
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| Tales from the Colony Room |
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| | Members of the Colony Room Club photographed by Neal Slavin for his book Britons. (image courtesy of Darren Coffield and Unbound). |
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| A New Home for the Latinx Art Alliance |
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| | Self Help Graphics & Art in Boyle Heights (image courtesy Self Help Graphics) |
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| | (photo courtesy Xinchen Wang) |
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