Terry Adkins's Objects of Wonder

May 30, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ⛈ Today, workers at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures launch a union drive, descendants of people who were enslaved by former US President James Madison take a stake in his estate, and reviews of Terry Adkins, Mary Beth Edelson, and Sharona Franklin.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief

Terry Adkins's Objects of Wonder

An exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery underscores not only how engaging and innovative, but also influential and visionary Adkins really was, and remains. | Gregory Volk

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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (photo by Joshua White; JWPictures / © Academy Museum Foundation; courtesy Academy Museum)

The CEO of the Montpelier estate in Virginia resigns after the museum and educational center’s board of directors finally achieved parity with the descendants of people enslaved on the former plantation.

Months after opening, workers at Los Angeles’s Academy Museum move to unionize.

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Edelson followed the hunch that if women artists didn’t create this history for themselves, no one would. | Ela Bittencourt

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