Good News for Color-Blind Art Lovers ~ The Art's Big Glass Of Wine

Good morning. ☁️ and Happy Diwali to our readers who celebrate it. Today we start with sad news about the death of the New Yorker's veteran art critic Peter Schjeldahl on Friday. Our condolences go to his family and loved ones. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

October 24, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ and Happy Diwali to our readers who celebrate it. Today we start with sad news about the death of the New Yorker's veteran art critic Peter Schjeldahl on Friday. Our condolences go to his family and loved ones.

In other news, the story of a Michigan art dealer who conned senior citizens, Brazil's crackdown on women clowns, the Dallas Museum of Art's special lenses for color-blind patrons, and have you ever seen a close-up of an ant's face? It will haunt you.

Also, we began publishing a series of articles produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. We’re happy to support and feature the work of these emerging art writers. Today you can read about an exhibition by Omar Ba and a spoken word performance written by Felwine Sarr, whom you might know from the Savoy-Sarr Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by the French president Emmanuel Macron. And, of course, there's lots more.

— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor

New Yorker Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl Dies at 80

With little formal training in art history or practice, Schjeldahl dove into criticism simply out of a passion for art. | Jasmine Liu

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

Kazuya Sakai, "Integrales II (Edgard Varèse) (1979), presented in normal color (left) and with color blind view conversion by Enchroma (right) (© Kazuya Sakai's estate; courtesy Galeria Vasari and DMA)

The Dallas Museum of Art is providing color blindness alleviation lenses to visitors with red-green deficiencies to help improve their art-viewing experience.
Archaeologists discover rare 2,700-year-old stone carvings in Iraq during the excavation of Mosul’s ancient Mashki Gate.
The FBI raided the home of Michigan art dealer Wendy Halsted Beard who swindled senior clients in a $1.6M fraud scheme.
Photos from the 48th Annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition show the true artistry of nature at its most detailed.