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Tuesday, February 16
This mural at a Chicago public school building is among several early 20th-century works in the city’s collection that have been criticized for having outdated depictions of Native Americans and other races and ethnicities. Photo courtesy of Chicago Public Schools.
2. “Resolving Tensions Over Race and Representation in Public Art” at the National Coalition Against Censorship, New York
The National Coalition Against Censorship is hosting a virtual luncheon to consider the delicate issue of historic WPA murals that whitewash problematic aspects of US history, and whether or not to remove them. Karyn Olivier, an artist and professor at Temple University in Philadelphia; Adriene Lim, dean of libraries at the University of Maryland; and scholar and curator Anthony Huffman will discuss.
Alison Watt There s a large Alison Watt painting called Phantom, which lurks quietly on a stairwell in Glasgow s Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. It always takes me by surprise; like all good phantoms should. This work always appears to me to be entirely composed and ethereally beautiful. There s an otherness about it too; an intensely sensual quality which suggests the most intimate parts of a woman s body. Part of a series which combined Watt s investigation of the use of fabric in art, it is a personal response by Watt to Francisco de Zubarán s seventeenth century painting, Saint Francis in Meditation, which is in the collection of the National Gallery in London. Watt has said in the past that she considered Phantom to be the most resolved work of a series which she made while she was artist-in-residence at the National Gallery in 2007.