We’re proud to present the latest episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast, featuring a discussion between Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian, poet and critic John Yau, and artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, who speaks about the dialogue between his work and Philip Guston's satirical Ku Klux Klan paintings in his new show at the Jewish Museum.
| Happy Wednesday! We’re proud to present the latest episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast, featuring a discussion between Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian, poet and critic John Yau, and artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, who speaks about the dialogue between his work and Philip Guston’s satirical Ku Klux Klan paintings in his new show at the Jewish Museum. Traversing the artists’ shared interest in the absurd contradictions of American racism and use of comic visual language, it’s an illuminating conversation you won’t want to miss. And after you give it a listen this morning, read through curator Lise Ragbir’s timely opinion piece on the future of a post-DEI art world and why institutions must commit to what’s always been at the core of these efforts: accessibility. Meanwhile, hundreds rally against worker layoffs outside a benefit dinner at the Brooklyn Museum. News Editor Valentina Di Liscia and Staff Writer Isa Farfan report from the protest.
There’s much more below, including an update on Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden controversy, and the occult paintings of Gertrude Abercrombie, whom Ed Simon characterizes as a “jazz witch” — a compliment of the highest order, to my ears. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | | |
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| | The artist sits down with Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian and critic John Yau to discuss his work, which brings together Guston’s notorious KKK figures with his own host of comic characters to confront white supremacy. |
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LATEST NEWS | | | Over 200 people rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum during a fundraising event to protest the recent sweeping layoffs impacting nearly 50 full- and part-time staff members. Elizabeth Street Garden is suing New York City, arguing that tit should be allowed to stay put under the Visual Artists Rights Act. |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | Feted as the “Queen of the Bohemians,” Abercrombie saw herself as a kind of jazz witch forging dream visions into a strange, eerie, and occult body of work. | Ed Simon |
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| | Collaged scraps of cloth or crumpled paper in Andrews’s portraits were a subversive and insistent means of encompassing his own non-White, non-urban roots. | Debra Brehmer |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | Even if DEI dies, arts organizations should still move toward the accessibility that has always been at the core of the effort. Here’s how. | Lise Ragbir |
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| | | An exhibition at the Legion of Honor is billed as the first to explore the artist’s “reinterpretations” of works by his artistic influences. | Rhea Nayyar |
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