Joanna Gardner-Huggett

Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

Save 30% on "The City of Our Dreaming," which collects the third #AlchemyLectures with contributions from @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, @biidaasamose.bsky.social,
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, & Gabriela Leandro Pereira.
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It's #givingtuesday, and I hope that if you have the capacity, you would support an organization that I am proud to serve on the board of: VisualAIDS. Because AIDS is not over, and in a time of queer erasure, preserving artist's legacies is an urgent, ongoing need.

#WorldAIDSDays

Reading and looking at art and examining things closely—observing, noticing—are my entire raison d'être, and I'm just really fucking grateful that I had people to teach me those skills and that I grew up in a time when those things were still valued

Awesome!!!

Such a good film and visually stunning. Always love Tessa Thompson. Enjoy it!!

Her Face Is on a Nigerian Bank Note. But Her Work Is Rarely Seen.

Sorry to miss this exhibition “Body, Vessel, Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art” At the Ford Foundation in NYC…

A photograph of MCA Chicagos’s performance with installation by Nadya Tolokonnikova’s Police State. Features a red neon symbol reminiscent of a Russian Orthodox cross. Behind that is a cell where the Pussy Riot member spends her day sewing, making music, and other tasks. On either side are sheets with the words “Punk is not dead”

Part of Nadya Tolokonnikova’s Police State installation with a sign “No problems in paradise. We’ll lock them up” cast in neon light.

This morning went to see Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot’s installation Police State at the MCA Chicago. Jarring to peer in tiny windows of her cell to watch her sewing, making music and typing. Scratched on to the wall was “I didn’t survive to be polite.” Performance through Sunday 11/30.

Happy Thanksgiving to my dear American friends!

An installation view of a museum gallery shows a large-scale Guerilla Girls collage that features Ingres's "Grand Odalisque" wearing a gorilla mask.

“Art should look like the rest of our culture,” says Frida Kahlo of the Guerilla Girls. Otherwise, “it’s not really history of art, it’s a history of power.”

I have a look at the timely Guerilla Girls show the Getty for Art Insider for @kcrw.com:

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How Toshiko Takaezu Brought the Abstract Expressionist Ethos to Ceramics “Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within” is the first retrospective for the artist in twenty years and includes over a hundred examples of works she produced during her career, including ceramics, weavings an...

"If you cannot see in Madison, stop by the Art Institute of Chicago, which has a grouping of her “Closed Forms,” ranging from palm-sized to about four feet tall, in the American Wing where they are actively interacting with paintings from the 1940s and 1950s, including Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks.”"

In advance of Thanksgiving:

Let’s go over this again: yes, at the end of every meeting someone should haphazardly throw chunky files into a capacious briefcase & shove it under his arm & storm out but THE REAL CONCLUDING GESTURE comes after: a bright & definitive click! as the meeting’s true victor snaps her pocketbook shut.

Excited for Patti Smith Show!

I'm super-excited about this conversation between these feminist activists, theorists, and friends, coming up at @intellpublics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on December 8. Online. Registration link below! @dukepress.bsky.social

List of the 5 finalists for one of this year’s CAA book prizes. Inexplicably I continue to sit on this jury, but that also means I’ve read all of them so you can believe me when I say they are all great books!

CAA has now publicly announced this year’s shortlist. There were so many great books this year!

Walked by a tree & thought: bark is freaky.

So absolutely true...

An accordion paper drawing in a gallery shows a colorful profile of a woman rendered in green, another body on top of her. Her body comes to resemble the outline of a mountain.

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra makes simple materials — paper, graphite, a little paint — feel magical in her solo show at the ICA LA, where she deftly fuses organic forms and the body.

I write all about it for @kcrw.com's Art Insider:
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Is your child secretly hoarding fresh produce? Check if they're using these acronyms...

LOL: lots of lettuce
YOLO: yummy oranges locked, organized
ASAP: apples sold and pocketed
FOMO: fennel, oyster mushrooms, oregano
AFAIK: all figs are in knapsack
BRB: bought radicchio boxes

A close in self-portrait of the artist looking out at the viewer, wearing a crown, holding a palm, and a part of a wheel of St. Catherine visible

A detail of close in self-portrait of the artist looking out at the viewer, wearing a crown, holding a palm, and a part of a wheel of St. Catherine visible

Early Florentine self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi on view at Christie's in New York, and up for auction in in February. I just saw it in August and it's very close to her Inclination in the Casa Buonarroti (c. 1615) and other early self-portraits in Florence (thanks, @pjeromack.bsky.social!)

You hit the perfect moment!!!

Elizabeth Catlett's Commitment to Art and Activism Powers the Art Institute's Retrospective In this monumental show, Catlett demonstrates her commitment to art and activism through her choice of subject matter and medium, her artistic collaborations, teaching and action.

If you see any art in Chicago this fall, put the Elizabeth Catlett exhibition at the Art Institute at the top of your list. A moving and powerful exhibit that we really need right now.

the babies are familiar with lockdowns but that doesn't make a new reason for them less terrorizing