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Weekend: Angela Dufresne Tells a Different Story

Feb 20, 2021 • View in browser
Weekend
As natural disasters, social and economic strife, and entirely avoidable COVID deaths continue to befall our world on a daily basis, we work toward healing as well.
Art’s capacity to both enlighten and console is lovingly expressed in this weekend’s edition of Stephen Maine’s series Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections. As artist Rusudan Khizanishvili says of the etching “Capitoline Wolf” (2019) by Nina Savenko, “This tiny piece is full of human tragedy, tears, fear, and injustice. […] I always want to remember that preserving our shared humanity is our duty. This image really keeps me awake and I am glad of that.”
– Natalie Haddad, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend

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Angela Dufresne Tells a Different Story
Angela Dufresne Tells a Different Story
I cannot think of another narrative painter as expansive, surprising, funny, unsettling, tender, wacky, challenging, theatrical, and radically imaginative as Angela Dufresne.
John Yau
9to5 Strikes at a Missing Piece of Feminist History
9to5 Strikes at a Missing Piece of Feminist History
In the late 1970s and early ’80s, women office workers banded together in a labor movement that sprouted up in 25 cities across the country.
Eileen G'Sell
Angel Otero’s Paintings of Absence
Angel Otero’s Paintings of Absence
Otero’s images of water and disaster mirror the wreckage of Hurricane Maria as well as the devastation of COVID-19.
John Yau
Michelangelo’s SIN, a Gritty and Sublime Biopic
Michelangelo’s SIN, a Gritty and Sublime Biopic
Andrei Konchalovsky’s film depicts an artist full of ambition, paranoia, loathing, and regret.
Paul D'Agostino, David Boffa and Thomas Micchelli
Throwing Everything Into the Rock Blender
Throwing Everything Into the Rock Blender
The prog rockers of Black Country, New Road are stranded at the end of history, and don’t know where to turn.
Lucas Fagen
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Living with art, I am surrounded by thoughts, visions and conversations by other artists. It’s all very intimate.”
Stephen Maine
Required Reading
Required Reading
This week, NASA lands on Mars, retiring the Group of Seven, the Pentagon’s algorithm-driven weapons, the life of Stan Lee, Stonehenge’s Welsh origins, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
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