Stunning Images of Our Universe

July 13, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, NASA releases the sharpest and most detailed telescope images ever captured of our vast, ever-expanding universe. At some point, images from deep space can start to look the same, but these ones are truly awe-inspiring. They'll leave you humbled.

Also today: A White artist gets caught copying the work of a Black artist without giving any credit; an animal rights group manages to shut down a Damien Hirst installation because it killed flies (yes, flies have rights too!); art criticism's history of racism, and much more.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief

The Deepest Images of Our Universe Are Here

NASA has released photographs taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, some capturing the ancient universe dating back 13 billion years. | Elaine Velie

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

Left: Still from Blue, directed by Dayday (screenshot Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic via Vimeo); right: Gala Knörr, “Young Cowboy” (2022) (used with permission from the Guggenheim Museum)

Controversy erupts over Gala Knörr’s works that uncannily referenced images from a film by Black and queer multidisciplinary artist dayday.

A German museum dismantles a Damien Hirst installation displaying dead flies following complaints from the animal rights group PETA.

CRITICS & CURATORS

How Art Criticism Perpetuated Racism, According to Harold Rosenberg

The late New Yorker art critic admonished the stringent "aesthetes" of his time for their blatant dismissal of the social and political contexts in which art emerges. | Debra Bricker Balken

Talking Sex With Two Film Curators

Hyperallergic talks to programmers Róisín Tapponi and Jed Rapfogel about their Anthology Film Archives retrospective and formative erotic film experiences. | Dan Schindel

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Two Artists Brought Together by the Sublime Mysteries of Existence

Cory Feder and Diego Medina’s collaboration in Wonder Holy Ladder is an antidote to the ubiquitous transactional relationships of the 21st century. | Sommer Browning

In Pursuit of Belonging

Mining the elusive nature of memory, Joeun Kim Aatchim reveals the urgent, universal desire to cling to the past despite its transience. | Catherine Yang

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