Climate Protests, Halloween Dog Contest, Artists on Antisemitism

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Weekly October 29, 2022   Happy Halloween! 🎃 Let's hope the midterm election results in the United States next week don't give us all a fright. If you're eligible to vote, please exercise your right to do so. This week, we published two moving pieces about the rise of antisemitism in the United States after a high-profile celebrity, Ye, or Kanye West, made some terrible statements and refused to back down. Artist Deborah Kass talks about the perpetual fears many Americans of Jewish descent and/or faith continue to have. "We thought it wouldn’t happen here. Yet we knew it could," she writes. Meanwhile, Isabella Segalovich points out that hate is often a routine expression of the everyday reality of white supremacy and we need to treat it that way. "To be honest, awful as Kanye’s words are, what hurts more is the reaction: So many people acting shocked, as if this level of racist hatred (including but not limited to antisemitism) hadn’t become commonplace, and as if lots of us hadn’t already been sounding alarm bells for years," she writes. As some climate protesters continue to create media spectacles around prominent artworks, one action in the Netherlands, involving Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring," precipitated heckles from art visitors in the gallery, while Lil Nas X decided to "avenge" van Gogh in a viral stunt. What a world. Oh, and it wouldn't be Halloween if I didn't show you something scary from earlier this week. Sweet Halloween dreams! — Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief       Deborah Kass, "It’s Hard To Be A Jew" (2003), 72 x 96 oil on canvas (© Deborah Kass 2022, Artist Rights Society/(ARS) NYC; courtesy the artist) I’m Jewish and I Don’t Want to Leave Again Artist Deborah Kass voices her concern over the current rise of antisemitism in her latest essay. When to leave? That’s the question every Jew has embedded in our DNA. When did people know to leave Germany? Russia? Where do you go? What do you take? What do you leave behind? How will you live, if you live?   Ye’s Critics Got It All Wrong “Treating Ye’s latest statements as exceptional, rather than a routine expression of the everyday reality of white supremacy, is only making the problem worse.” — Isabella Segalovich   The Art World Reacts to Ye’s Hateful Comments Rhea Nayyar reports that a film studio scrapped a completed documentary on Ye, artists are denouncing hate speech, and more.     SPONSORED This Year’s Singapore Biennale Is Named Natasha In taking a human name, the Singapore Biennale 2022 envisions itself as an intimate and collective journey with artists and audiences. On view through March 19, 2023. Learn more.     NEWS THIS WEEK Dog parents Courtney and Dai with their dog Taz dressed as Just Stop Oil climate activists (Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) Hundreds of dogs poured into Manhattan’s Tompkins Square Park last weekend for the annual Halloween Dog Festival and costume contest. The Getty is exhibiting the remaining pages from Códice Maya de México, the oldest surviving book of the Americas. Outraged patrons heckle an activist who glued his head to Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in a climate change action. After sustaining severe damage in the Beirut blast, this previously unknown Artemisia Gentileschi painting is undergoing restoration. Protest banners were unfurled at the Guggenheim Museum last week in an "action to support the current revolution in Iran."       SPONSORED LA ESCUELA___ Launches New Programs on Ecological Rights and Activist Participation With geographic decentralization as a premise, the artist-run platform’s second semester will unfold online and on-site through formative projects across Latin America. Learn more.     PARANORMAL ARTIVITIES Gertrude Abercrombie, “Strange Shadows (Shadows and Substance)” (1950) (© the artist, all rights reserved; courtesy the Speed Art Museum) Is Kentucky’s Speed Art Museum Haunted? Although founder Hattie Bishop Speed died in 1942, some employees of the museum say they continue to feel her presence. “I firmly believe Hattie Bishop Speed would have a genuine interest in ensuring that things are going well for the museum she founded and directed for many years,” said curator Erika Holmquist-Wall. “I’d like to think she’s checking in on us every now and then.”   The AI Halloween Art of Your Nightmares Is Here We asked the AI image generator Dall-E to reimagine famous artworks at their spookiest. We really wish we hadn’t.   How Witches Cast Their Spell on Art History From Remedios Varo to Francisco de Goya, Sarah Rose Sharp looks at how artists have long turned to witchcraft as subject matter. (If you want to read further, revisit Lauren Moya Ford's review of Witchcraft.)     SPONSORED Paris Photo Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary The largest international fair dedicated to photography will bring together 184 exhibitors from 31 countries in the heart of Paris this November. Learn more.     WHAT TO SEE IN NYC & LA IN NOVEMBER Baldwin Lee, “Nashville, Tennessee” (1983) (courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery) New York’s art spaces are reflecting on the last year of programming and looking ahead to 2023 with exhibitions dedicated to the abolitionist roots of skateboarding, traditions of community organizing in Brooklyn, and the Indigenous roots of Latin American art. November in Los Angeles brings us shows that highlight art’s role as both a reflection of everyday life and a force to help change our reality. Retrospectives on the work of Henry Taylor and William Kentridge focus on their approaches to identity, race, and culture in their respective homes.   NEW YORK   LOS ANGELES       Support Hyperallergic's independent journalism Become a member today to help keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. Become a Member     LATEST REVIEWS Sally J. Han, “After Bonnard” (2022), acrylic on paper mounted on wood panel, 24 x 18 inches (photo by Jason Mandella; all images courtesy the artist and Fortnight Institute, NYC) Long Live Life’s Little Moments  John Yau reviews Sally J. Han: Lost and Found continues at Fortnight Institute. As straightforward, stylishly cool, and precisely detailed as Han’s paintings are, they are not all about surface and therefore not part of the tradition that painters such as Alex Katz and David Hockney started and Jonas Wood continues. There is so much to unpack in Han’s work.   The Enthralling Solitude of Leigh Werrell’s Art Lev Feigin expands on how moments of disconnection and isolation become opportunities for the artist to find enchantment in the act of looking.   Juan Sánchez’s Nuyorican State of Mind Arlene Dávila explores how the artist’s sophisticated hybrid aesthetic echoes the very condition of being Nuyorican.     SPONSORED SVA MA in Curatorial Practice This program offers the opportunity to create three funded exhibitions in New York City. Learn more.     MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC DALL-E 2 artwork based on the prompt “cat making computer art” (Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) An Amateur’s Guide to Using AI Image Generators Distraught by DALL-E? Mystified by Midjourney? Rhea Nayyar gives us the lowdown on four popular AI platforms.   What Does AI Dance-Pop Sound Like? Dan Schindel reviews "The Computer Accent," which follows the pop-dance band YACHT as they use AI to help compose their 2019 album Chain Tripping.   AI Art Is Soft Propaganda for the Global North  "Unsurprisingly, the artistic and ethical shortcomings of AI image generators are tied to their dependence on capital and capitalism." — Marco Donnarumma   Behind the Fight to Save North Hollywood’s Last Indie Cinema Laemmle NoHo 7, the last independent cinema in North Hollywood, is slated to be destroyed and replaced by luxury apartments. Billy Anania    Required Reading  Elon Musk trolls, getting your news from TikTok, cacti music, and more in this week’s Required Reading.     SPONSORED ANNOUNCEMENTS Join a Dynamic MFA Program in Art and Design at the University of Louisville Wrightwood 659’s Fall Exhibitions Highlight the Expansive Cosmos and Same-Sex Desire Washington University in St. Louis Offers an Interdisciplinary MFA in Visual Art Earn Your MFA in Studio: Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Miami’s Fountainhead Residency Announces 2023 Selected Artists Looking at Enheduanna, the World’s First Known Author, and the Women of Mesopotamia Experiment and Take Risks in Carnegie Mellon’s Top-Ranked Interdisciplinary MFA Program     COMICS Thoughts on Clement Greenberg From a Cult Survivor At the height of his influence as an art critic, Greenberg was in “Sullivanian” psychotherapy, the same cult Jesse Lambert was later exposed to as a child.       Forward to a friend.   This email was sent to spaproductsavailable.bigglassofwine@blogger.com.  Update your email preferences.   ​​Hyperallergic, 181 N 11th St, Suite 302, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Click below to stop receiving all Hyperallergic emails. 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