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New York Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n

Strikes averted at four NYC museums, the devastating loss of Francis Lee Rogers, the city doubles artist grants, and The Met\u2019s breathtaking Krasner-Pollock show. <\/p>\n


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\n A visitor at Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous (photo Valentina Di Liscia\/Hyperallergic)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m ashamed to admit that it took a death in the building for me to get to know the names and faces of my neighbors after four-ish years in the same place. I knew I lived around nice people with kind faces who would hold the door open for me when I had my hands full or reflexively tell me to \u201cbe safe out there,\u201d but that was the extent of it until last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The person who passed was beloved by everyone \u2014 the stalwart of our street, known for a big heart that shone beneath a flimsy mask of stern words and a gruff attitude. That heart we all benefited from and took for granted is what ultimately betrayed him. What is the world without its twisted coincidences and indiscriminate punition?\u00a0<\/p>\n

As untimely and unfair as this loss is, it made us all look at each other and understand that it\u2019s on us to take care of each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We also mourn the loss of Francis Lee Rogers, a 67-year-old artist and unhoused resident of Central Park who was reportedly killed last week. Rogers is remembered for her stunning paintings of the park\u2019s ecosystem, and for using what little she had to keep the Ramble\u2019s birdfeeders full throughout the winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s on us to take care of each other.<\/p>\n

A new publication on the Studio Museum in Harlem\u2019s history testifies to the importance of the work done to create the institution, and the work that needs to be done to ensure that no more historically Black arts institutions are lost to history or relegated to the shadows again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s on us to take care of each other.<\/p>\n

It seems to be working for UAW Local 2110 \u2014 unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Guggenheim have won their contracts after threatening to strike. It\u2019s also shining through in the New Jersey Monuments to Migration and Labor, a statewide public art initiative celebrating immigrant communities and their organizing work in the labor sector during a time of state-sanctioned brutality and criminalization.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her inaugural contribution to Hyperallergic, critic and novelist Lucy Ives reviews Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous at The Met, confidently stating, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen an upending quite like this.\u201d And just four miles south, in Mala Iqbal\u2019s solo exhibition Among Us at JJ Murphy Gallery, Hyperallergic\u2019s co-founder and Editor-at-Large, Hrag Vartanian, is reminded that \u201cthe world is a room we share with strangers, most of whom are looking elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

And lastly, the city\u2019s largest-ever arts and culture budget<\/a> appears to be moving the needle: After nearly 20 years of $5,000 allocations for individual, city-funded artists’ grants, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs announced that the figure has doubled in a call for applications.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Is this what it feels like when someone finally cares for us?<\/p>\n

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Quilt Along: Sit and Sew at the National Museum of the American Indian<\/p>\n

Meet artist Margaret Wood (Din\u00e9\/Seminole), one of five contemporary Indigenous artists featured in the museum\u2019s first-ever Quilt Along program. The artists designed patterns inspired by different eras of United States history, as seen through a Native lens.<\/p>\n

Learn more and join us Saturday, October 17, 1\u20133 PM.<\/p>\n


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From Our Critics\"\"<\/a>Lucy Ives<\/p>\n

Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous at at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We want to stare at somebody else\u2019s marriage. Even more than this, we want to know how she did it. How did Lee Krasner make these intricate and small and big and brash paintings? How did she survive being married to a man who was briefly the most famous artist in America, and who died while driving under the influence? How did she … make it out alive, and, moreover, what did it mean for her art?”<\/p>\n

Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n

Stephanie Wambugu<\/p>\n

Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony at the New Museum<\/p>\n

“Arthur Jafa\u2019s survey\u00a0… is full of the artist\u2019s characteristic gallows humor that ironizes even the most morbid images and brings to the surface the solemnity of low culture.”<\/p>\n

Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n

Hrag Vartanian<\/p>\n

Mala Iqbal: Among Us at JJ Murphy<\/p>\n

”\u00a0I can find myself in these paintings, but in parts, not whole, the way a glimpse on the street lingers to become something precious and beautiful in its ephemerality.”<\/p>\n

Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n

Madeleine Seidel<\/p>\n

Johanna Hedva: Gravity, My \/ Favorite Enemy at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances<\/p>\n

“Hedva\u2019s interdisciplinary exploration into the inescapable, constant march may ask us to consider one of life\u2019s greatest mysteries, but the work itself does little to support such a vast inquiry.”<\/p>\n

Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n

John Yau<\/p>\n

This Heat: Brenda Goodman, Steve DiBenedetto, and Bendix Harms at New York Studio School<\/p>\n

“Many of DiBenedetto\u2019s paintings strike as a weird combination of the grotesque and comic, like an armless creature trying to apply lipstick with its nose.”<\/p>\n

Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n

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FIT Exhibition Explores the Cultural Dialogue Between Dolls and Fashion<\/p>\n

Featuring more than 170 objects, \u201cDoll Dressing\u201d examines the influence of dolls on fashion from the 18th century to today.<\/p>\n


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A Hyperallergic Halloween<\/p>\n

\u200bJoin us on October 28 in Brooklyn, NY for an evening of spooky cocktails, devilish delights, an art-themed costume contest, and more.<\/p>\n


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Features\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

News\"\"<\/a>What Else Is Happening?During Banned Books Week, Hyperallergic’s Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian is moderating a conversation between artists, publishers, and filmmakers for a discussion on artistic freedom and the need for new ways to support free expression in the arts. (Tues Oct 6) [bklynlibrary.org<\/a>]Attend Organizing Amid Displacement \u2014 an update on activism and mutual aid in refugee camps of the northern West Bank at The People’s Forum. (Tues Oct 6) [peoplesforum.org<\/a>]New York City Transit will once again hold a Memorabilia and Collectibles Pop-Up Shop. You can purchase perfectly imperfect items \u2014 subway signs, grabholds, retired fleet memorabilia, and more \u2014 in person. (Thurs Oct 8 and Fri Oct 9) [mta.info<\/a>]At its Open Studios, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts welcomes the public to explore 85 artist studios, along with a host of arts programming and exhibitions. (Fri Oct 9 and Sat Oct 10) [studios-efa.org<\/a>]Join MoMA for screenings on short films about the roots of the New York City underground. (Thurs Oct 7) [moma.org<\/a>] Watch Southland Tales (2006) at the Museum of the Moving Image. (Sun Oct 11) [movingimage.org<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Newsletter Strikes averted at four NYC museums, the devastating loss of Francis Lee Rogers, the city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-873265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}