Joanna Gardner-Huggett

I'm grateful to Isa Farfan @isafarfan.bsky.social for her great @hyperallergic.com article covering community backlash against closing the DePaul Art Museum. You can still sign our petition here: openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

Handcolored image of Christ on a mountain having none of the devil's tempting.

Not Today Satan

"Alison Knowles stands out as the sole female artist among the founders of Fluxus, yet she has remained an enigmatic, underrecognized figure in the history of art. Performing Chance fills a gap in the record, bringing to 💡Knowles’s transformative body of work," from 🎨 to performance to poetry...

Why the arts still matter at DePaul Economic constraints that suffocate creative expression and access to artistic skill and imagination are now at the front door of DePaul University.

This oped by DePaul student Jessica Saunders says it all. If you wish to sign to oppose the closure of the DePaul Art Museum, you can sign a letter here (please note it requires a email verification, which often goes to spam): openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

I know it is easy to doomscroll, especially today. Please plan for yourself at least one or many more offline activities. Buy a pastry, read a book, go to a museum, see a friend, cook a meal, play with a pet, or even a trip to Costco. Try to limit time on your phone and avoid stewing in anxiety.

Absolutely!

So, so angry right now!!

Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years The DePaul Art Museum will close after 40 years amid substantial financial challenges at its parent university, which has initiated layoffs.

“It has come to be viewed as a surprisingly important museum in the ecosystem. It is small and willing to do things other museums and even other university museums are not so readily able to do.”

It's still up.

Artist Judy Chicago logs out of Google renovation project over artistic differences The troubles described by the artist are the public's first look behind the glass walls of the $300 million development, beyond the news releases and architectural renderings released by Google.

My architecture column today: "The artist was picked in September to create a new terrazzo tile atrium floor at the base of the building. The job included a new decorative skin — possibly a mix of vinyl and stained glass — to adorn the atrium’s exposed 17-story elevator system."

While you are watching the game, the perfumed class will wander the streets in a reverie. Quick bises hello by the otherwise empty sushi stand. Courtly bows in front of the gay bar.

Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...

From the museum label: The painting “depicts a monumental female figure in vibrant teal and magenta, shown in three-quarter profile and meeting the viewer's gaze. Her elaborate tignon—a headwrap once imposed by colonial law to mark and suppress women of African descent-is reimagined as a symbol of cultural power. Embedded in the painted fabric are Black panthers, protective azabache charms, and traces of indigo dye tied to the transatlantic slave trade.”

Firelei Báez, To See Beyond Its Walls (and access the places that lie beyond) (2017), acrylic on canvas

US National Gallery of Art acquires important Artemisia Gentileschi painting The Baroque master’s “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy”, which sold at auction for €865,500 in 2014, will go on display in Washington, DC, later this month

National Gallery of art in Washington acquires a key Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi (until recently on long-term loan to the Palazzo Ducale in Venice)

Great book chapter! Had my students read it last quarter.

Today’s moment of calm.
New life will soon becoming to the beaches near where we live

For the latest issue of The Magazine Antiques I wrote about Ethan Allen catalogs, the Eamses, Venturi & Scott Brown, and the fraught effort to celebrate the 200th birthday of the United States at a moment when the country was a hot mess. Sound familiar? 🦅
www.themagazineantiques.com/article/1976...

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Lecture alert! Wed. Feb 25th, I'll be giving a talk I've been working on for many months: "The Magic Hype: Andy Warhol and Trans Visibility in the 1970s" at the Dia Foundation in Chelsea. In coordination, Dia will have three days of screenings of Warhol films.

diaart.org/program/cale...

Looked out for you, but happy it was so well attended despite snow and cold.

For Dutch people: here's the petition to sign to support a boycott of the World Cup in the USA: actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...

The cover of the Dec 1956 issue of gourmet magazine featuring an illustration of a multi tiered fruit platter with attached candelabra

Blizzard forecast, time to light the fruit candelabra. Stay safe out there ❄️🍇🍊

The Forgotten Designer Who Created America’s First National Parks Posters Pioneering Modernist designer Dorothy Waugh gets her due as Poster House reunites her groundbreaking Great Depression-era NPS posters

Dorothy Waugh studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago…

My other research conundrum from today: No one seems to know if you can use an image from the ARTSTOR Visual Arts Library (without a named photographer) in a book.

Have any of you sorted this out?