Vandals Ransack a Sculpture Residency

August 30, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, unidentified vandals ransack the Sculpture Space residency in Utica, NY, leaving behind smashed windows, destroyed artworks, and obliterated equipment. I don't know why anyone would do that. Police are investigating.

Also, scientists now say that the earliest human fossils in South Africa are a million years older than we thought. That's quite a gap in the timeline of human evolution. And read our reviews today, which include Anna Souter's scathing takedown of the British Museum’s exhibition Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic (spoiler alert: It's not so feminist).

— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor

The British Museum Takes the Feminism Out of Feminine Power

The realities of women’s lives are conspicuously absent from the British Museum's Feminine Power, a show about the feminine. | Anna Souter

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

Vandals used tools from the studios to damage and destroy works that were donated for Sculpture Space’s upcoming charity auction. (via Facebook)

A devastating attack on Sculpture Space in Utica leaves smashed windows, destroyed equipment, and damaged works slated for a charity auction.

Both the Orlando Museum of Art’s interim director and board chair resigned last week in the continued fallout of the forged Basquiats scandal.

New research suggests that the earliest human fossils in South Africa are at least a million years older than previously thought.

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Stanley Museum of Art Opens Homecoming, the First Show in Its New Building

This exhibition at the University of Iowa’s museum features some 500 artists, from works by household names like Pollock and Motherwell to art that has rarely, if ever, been shown. Learn more.

EPHEMERALITY & ENVIRONMENT

Home Is a Mindset for a Nomadic Artist

Carlos Bunga's architectural installation in the Reina Sofía's Crystal Palace creates the facade of stability and strength yet is actually ephemeral and even fragile. | Sabrina Boutselis

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Plein Air Is a Sobering Reminder of Human Impact on the Environment

From borderlands and elevations to ecology and isolation, curator Aurora Tang brings together artists who work deeply in their regional geographies. | Thao Votang

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