The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include sites in Mississippi and Illinois

The Vermont State Police is looking for any leads regarding the whereabouts of the 150-pound sculpture and another element of the set

The bombing of several buildings including in the historic city centre—a World Heritage Site—has been strongly condemned by Unesco

Major institutions are falling over themselves to be funny on the new rival to Twitter

$200 from each sale will go directly to the Mental Health America charity

There are plenty of encouraging dynamics in the city this summer

Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec: a meeting in Seattle

From July 21 to December 3, 2023, the Seattle Asian Art Museum presents “Renegade Edo and Paris: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec”

Source: Seattle Art Museum · Image: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760 – 1849), “Yoshida on the Tokaido” (Tokaido Yoshida), from the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)”, ca. 1830-32

The Seattle Art Museum states that “at the end of the 19th century, both Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Paris were home to a rising middle class that challenged the status quo and expressed antiestablishment attitudes. Organized by SAM, this exhibition explores the shared subversive hedonism that underlies both Japanese ukiyo-e prints and the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Through around 90 impressions drawn from the Seattle Art Museum’s Japanese prints collection as well as private holdings of Toulouse-Lautrec’s work, this exhibition offers a critical look at the renegade spirit in the graphic arts in both Edo and Paris, highlighting the social impulses—pleasure seeking and theatergoing—behind the burgeoning art production.”

“Renegade Edo and Paris” will not be the only exhibition focusing on Japanese printmaking to be seen in Seattle in the coming months, as from October 19, 2023, to January 21, 2024, the Seattle Art Museum will present the exhibition “Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence, from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”, which includes 100 woodblock prints, paintings, and illustrated books by Katsushika Hokusai (1760 – 1849), from the MFA’s collection, with over 200 works by his teachers, students, rivals, and admirers. In addition, since October 20, 2022, the Seattle Art Museum also hosts the exhibition “Deities & Demons: Supernatural In Japanese Art”.

Biggest ever exhibition of Grayson Perry’s work opens in Edinburgh

From 22 July until 12 November 2023, the Royal Scottish Academy presents the largest exhibition ever devoted to British artist Grayson Perry, covering his 40-year career.

Source: National Galleries of Scotland · Image: Grayson Perry introducing his exhibition ‘The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!’, at Arnolfini, Bristol. Image by Arnolfini, license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grayson_Perry_as_Claire.jpg

Perry has gone from taking pottery evening classes to winning the Turner Prize, presenting television programmes on Channel 4 and writing acclaimed books. Pottery allowed him the opportunity to indulge his fascination with sex, Punk, and counterculture, amongst other things, in the most unlikely and polite of art forms. Today he is one of Britain’s most celebrated artists and cultural figures.

Popular and provocative, Perry makes art that deals with difficult and complex ideas in an accessible and often funny way. He loves taking on big issues that are universally human: masculinity, sexuality, class, religion, politics and more. On view will be subversive pots, brilliantly intricate prints, elaborate sculptures, and huge, captivating tapestries – all imbued with Perry’s sharp wit and social commentary. Working with traditional mediums, Perry addresses the controversial issues of our times.

Grayson Perry: Smash Hits brings together all the artist’s meticulously detailed prints and imaginary maps. The exhibition features many of his tapestries, such as the rarely shown Walthamstow Tapestry (2009) which, at 15-metres in length, presents a birth-to-death journey through shopping and brand names. Visitors also encounter the intricate cast-iron ship, Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman (2011) which was the centrepiece of Perry’s 2011 exhibition of the same name at the British Museum. The tomb is a memorial to all the anonymous craftsmen of history.

Two rooms centre on the monumental tapestry series: Vanity of Small Differences (2012), which focus on class and are loosely based on William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, as well as House for Essex tapestries (2015), which explore the life of a fictional Essex woman Julie Cope. 

The final room exhibits new works made in the past few months especially for the exhibition. These include a richly detailed tapestry, a large woodcut print, and pots and plates which explore themes of national identity. Perry’s latest pots, in the form of medieval beer flagons, are decorated with traditional slipware techniques and reference subjects ranging from the polarising effect of internet debate to heraldic iconography. This room also includes objects chosen from his recent Channel 4 docuseries Grayson Perry’s Full English. Perry travelled around the country to try and uncover what Englishness means today. He invited interviewees to select personal items which to them represented Englishness. Piqued by the opportunity to show some of these items, alongside his new works on Englishness in Scotland, Perry has included various objects from a pub sign to a football flag, and a teacup to a letter from the Queen. 

A mainstay of the downtown scene, Artists Space is the second non-profit given prominent placement at the fair under the Armory Spotlight initiative