| Good morning! Today, enjoy a gorgeous photo essay by Carrie Mae Weems, in which she visually responds to Sam Cooke's classic "A Change Is Gonna Come." (I recommend listening to the song while scrolling through.) Also, a massive monograph argues for a new take on Frida Kahlo, and the Vitra Design Museum looks at 120 years of women in design, including architect Eileen Gray. — Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor Here We Are! is an expansive exhibition exploring the role of women in furniture design, fashion design, industrial design, and interior design. | Sarah Rose Sharp SPONSORED WHAT'S HAPPENING "LET AFGHANS IN, OPEN YOUR BORDERS" (2021), illustrated by Aishwarya Srivastava and printed by Kelli Anderson (images courtesy Rona Akbari) Writer Rona Akbari and artist Aishwarya Srivastava initiate a print sale fundraiser to support Afghan nationals facing illness and starvation. Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida was released from prison in Havana and exiled to Poland along with writer Katherine Bisquet. A new grant by the Svane Family Foundation offers unrestricted funding to Bay Area artists and arts organizations. SPONSORED David Zwirner is pleased to present Who Loves the Sun, an exhibition of new work by Marcel Dzama, on view at the gallery’s 34 East 69th Street location in New York.
Explore available works and plan your visit now. ART & FILM Lucile Hadžihalilović’s English-language debut Earwig is another odd but assured film about the relationships between children and their guardians. | Jourdain Searles SPONSORED Large-scale installations by artist and adobera Joanna Keane Lopez and olfactory-acoustic sculptures by Oswaldo Maciá will be on view starting October 1. Learn more. The photograph of Mahal, taken in 1872 while she was interned and dispossessed, raises questions of consent. | Rijuta Mehta BOOKS Three art historians put the focus back on Kahlo’s artistic output. | Joanna Garcia Cheran SPONSORED Over 125 artist studios, galleries, and exhibition spaces open their doors to the public for this year's Jersey City Art and Studio Tour, taking place from September 30 through October 3. Learn more. Weems’s essay is excerpted from Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces. | Carrie Mae Weems FROM THE ARCHIVE Dig deeper into the works and lives of Eileen Gray and Charlotte Perriand, two pivotal modernist designers highlighted in the exhibition, Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today, at the Vitra Design Museum. By every measure, Eileen Gray ought to be as well-known as her Modernist male contemporaries. An exhibition at Bard’s Graduate Center offers a smart correction to the historical record. | Lydia Pyne SPONSORED Over the course of three months, the resident artists in Going to the Meadow will collaborate and create with a curated set of continually changing materials. Learn more. While working with Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, for 10 years, Perriand advanced her vision of modern living. | Mika Ross-Southall Your contributions support Hyperallergic's independent journalism and our extensive network of writers around the world. Join Now MOST POPULAR | 