The Ancient Art of Organized Labor

February 2, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ Today, artist Florine Stettheimer gets her first comprehensive biography, museum guards helped curate an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Billy Anania looks at the history of depicting labor organizing in a three-part series that starts today.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

The Ancient Art of Organized Labor

From Egyptian craftsmen to European textile workers, artists have always found strength in numbers. | Billy Anania

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“Gorgeous and affecting” —The Hollywood Reporter.

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Stills from a fly-through video of The House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii from the exhibition Pompeii in Color at New York University (courtesy 3D Francesco Gabellone & Techné S.A.S)

An exhibition at New York University presents a scintillating close read on the fresco art of Pompeii’s lost villas.

A New Zealand auction house sells two glass plate negatives as NFTs and encourages the buyers to destroy the originals.

An upcoming film series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music explores the enduring resonance of Brazilian modernism.

An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society reexamines the display of controversial monuments dating back to the country’s founding.

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Can an Exhibition Selected by Museum Guards Address Inequality at Museums?

Guarding the Art has the chance to become the model for how museums honor and respect the dignity of their guards moving forward. | Derek Stafford Mangus

Florine Stettheimer, Highly Original Artist, Gets Her First Comprehensive Biography

Barbara Bloemink’s thorough, engaging book is the first comprehensive biography and full reading of Stettheimer’s paintings, and gives the artist the attention she has long deserved. | Lauren Moya Ford

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