When We Confuse the Artist's Muse with the Artist's Model

January 28, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ Today, a new museum focused on pandemic-era craft opens, young photographers shine in an online exhibition, and why the public is obsessed with seeing artists’ studios as a heavily sensual space and what that distorts.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

When We Confuse the Artist's Muse with the Artist's Model

Our culture seems obsessed with the artist/model relationship, portrayed in countless movies and narratives as a relationship that is lustful and scandalous. | Emma Shapiro

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Hannah Le Leu, “Against All Odds” (2021), won third place in the Wide-Angle category of the Ocean Art 2021 Underwater Photography Competition. (courtesy the Underwater Photography Guide)

The winners of this year’s Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest feature stunning shots of life beneath the waterline.

A Tennessee school board has banned Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus, a famous graphic novel about the Holocaust.

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Beholding Black Lives & Curating With Care: A Conversation With La Tanya S. Autry, Cultural Organizer and Curator

On Tuesday, February 1, at 7 pm (EST), join us for a special event with La Tanya S. Autry as she discusses her curatorial project Beholding, Black World Making and her upcoming Hyperallergic email exhibition, which will feature behind-the-scenes reflections on the project’s development alongside work by artist Sheila Pree Bright.

The conversation will explore Black people’s modes of defying ongoing precarity while loving one another, focusing in particular on artist images and information, activism and organizing, and scholarship rooted in Black liberation and anti-colonial pedagogies.

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BRIClab Residency Applications Open for NYC Visual Artists, Performers, and Media Makers

BRIC’s multidisciplinary program in Brooklyn has cohorts in Contemporary Art, Film & TV, Performing Arts, and Video Art. Applications are due March 10. Learn more.

ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, & MORE

Hannah Lee's Dreamlike Realism

Being bowled over by an unknown artist’s first one-person show does not happen often but when it does, it renews your faith that the art world is not just about buzz and hype. | John Yau

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Applications Are Open for the MFA in Studio Art at Maine College of Art & Design

Students can enroll in a Full Residency in Portland, ME, or a Low Residency from anywhere in the world. Apply by January 21 to be considered for a full-tuition scholarship. Learn more.

A Remarkable Online Show of Young Photography

What is wonderful about the online photography exhibition What Have We Stopped Hiding? is that one is given entrée to the internal monologue of the artists featured in the show. | Seph Rodney

Brandon Lattu’s Post-Camera Photography Employs Scanners, Photoshop, and Computer Programs

Surrealist images of a Rice Krispies box or Yukon Gold potato explore how data is transformed into the visual language called art. | Jeremy Sigler

New Folk Art Museum Celebrates the Rise of Craft During the Pandemic

Self-taught artists were invited to exhibit, and sell, their fuzzy stacks of pancakes and tasseled tapestries. | Renée Reizman

Required Reading

This week, the Tonga eruption as captured from space, Boston gets a big gift of Dutch and Flemish painting, 30 years of New Queer Cinema, an important Marcel Breuer house is demolished, and much more. | Hrag Vartanian

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TRANSITIONS

Claire Bernardi was appointed director of the Musée de l’Orangerie.

Kenrick McFarlane is now represented by M+B Gallery.

Adjoa Jones de Almeida and Carolyn Royston were appointed deputy directors at the Brooklyn Museum. Jones de Almeida will serve as deputy director for learning and social impact, and Carolyn Royston will be deputy director for engagement.

Astrid Terrazas is now represented by P.P.O.W. Gallery.

The Pacita Abad Art Estate is now represented by Tina Kim Gallery.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Beili Liu was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation's Pollock Prize for Creativity.

Maya Lin and Shahidul Alam were appointed National Geographic Explorers at Large, and Lynsey Addario was awarded the 2022 National Geographic Society’s Eliza Scidmore Award for Outstanding Storytelling.

Savinder Bual, Elissa Brunato, Love Ssega, Lee Hart, and Libita Sibungu received UK's Arts Foundation Futures Awards.

United States Artists has announced its 2022 USA Fellows; the 63 artists work across ten disciplines and will each receive $50,000.

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