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October 12, 2022 • View in browserGood morning. ⛅ Long before joining the frontlines of current protests against the draconian “morality police,” Iranian artists have employed inventive tactics to bypass restrictions on their freedom of expression and practice disobedience. Art historian Pamela Karimi, author of Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice, wrote an illuminating essay about Iranian protest art in the four decades since the Islamic Revolution. I highly recommend you check it out. Also today: Duncan Grant’s recently discovered queer, erotic drawings, Silas Inoue’s living “mold paintings,” Colby Deal’s portraits of Houston’s Third Ward, and much more. Finally, a shoutout to our critic John Yau, who will be giving a lecture today at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. John will discuss how the Catskills influenced 19th-century landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and 20th-century abstractionist Thomas Nozkowski. The talk will begin at 6:30pm (ET) in person and online. See more details here. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor The Many Shades of Iran’s Protest ArtIn the four decades since the Islamic Revolution, Iranian artists have used clever tactics and unconventional modes of art-making to display disobedience. | Pamela Kamiri SPONSORED Wild Pigment Project Embraces Reciprocal Foraging at Santa Fe’s form & conceptAsking what it means to work with materials gathered in wild places, this exhibition features work by an international group of artists and traditional practitioners. Learn more. WHAT'S HAPPENING Activists at the museum yesterday morning (photo courtesy Ron Fassbender) Activists crash an opening at the British Museum, calling for the release of the imprisoned Egyptian political critic Alaa Abd El-Fattah. Artist Silke Otto-Knapp dies at 52 after battling ovarian cancer for two years. Russian missiles killed 19 people and damaged at least seven museums in Kyiv this Monday, October 10. SPONSORED Cabinet Presents And Warren Niesłuchowski Was There: Guest, Host, GhostThis New York exhibition explores Niesłuchowski’s decision at the age of 57 to have no home of his own and live permanently as the guest of others. Learn more. ART & AGENCY A Neurodivergent Artist Asserts His AgencyThe power of Mike Hack's art lies not just in his slyly irreverent interventions but in the fact that these interventions come from within the autistic community. | Madeleine Seidel SPONSORED Cey Adams Celebrates 40 Years of Art and Design at Boston University Art GalleriesAdams’s first career retrospective features over 60 works that showcase his wide-ranging practice, from graffiti and photography to painting and collage. Learn more. Duncan Grant's Erotic Drawings Explore a Queer UtopiaA new exhibition presents recently discovered works by Grant in conversation with newly commissioned pieces by LGBTQ+ artists of today. | Sarah Rose Sharp Co-Creating With Fungal MoldSilas Inoue’s “mold paintings” set a dark, suggestive mood. | Louis Bury CAPTURING PLACE Once Upon a Time in AlbuquerqueKarsten Creightney’s familiar yet uncanny landscapes transport, disrupt, and open possibilities for new worlds. | Maggie Grimason SPONSORED Meet UConn’s MFA Studio Art Class of 2025This fully-funded, three-year graduate program in Southern New England culminates with an exhibition in an NYC gallery and an on-campus thesis exhibition. Learn more. The Offhand Beauty of Houston’s Third WardColby Deal’s photographs capture very little on an individual basis, but an entire world when taken in aggregate. | Sarah Rose Sharp SPONSORED ANNOUNCEMENTS Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents “John Yau: Frederic Edwin Church and Thomas Nozkowski and Their Views of the Catskills”Artist and Composer Dana Lyn Celebrates Jay DeFeo in A Point on a Slow Curve at Joe’s PubJoin Nuyorican Artist Juan Sánchez in Conversation With Curator Jessamine BatarioWrightwood 659 Hosts Exhibitions on the “First Homosexuals” and Michiko ItataniGowanus Open Studios Returns for Its 26th YearThe Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin Offers Up to 70 Fellowships in the HumanitiesApplications Open for MassArt’s 2023 MFA Programs in 2D and 3D Fine ArtsCCS Bard Offers Expansive Resources and a Transformative Education in Curatorial StudiesAlexandre Arrechea’s Landscape and Hierarchies Features Works Inspired by Sports and NatureIN OUR STORE “C’mon, Get Happy” Enamel PinIt’s hard to argue with the optimistic message on this tiny accessory, which replicates a work created by contemporary artist Deborah Kass for her series Feel Good Paintings For Feel Bad Times. If you like Deborah Kass, check out this pin inspired by Blue Deb (2012)! Support Hyperallergic's independent journalismBecome a member today to help keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. Become a MemberMOST POPULAR I'm a Philadelphia Museum of Art Worker and This Is Why We're StrikingBeleaguered Philadelphia Museum of Art Disables Social Media CommentsSeven New Art Spaces to Visit in ManhattanWhoops! Turns Out Vermeer Didn’t Paint “Girl With a Flute”Art Writing as an Extension of Life
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