Betye Saar, Simone Forti, Walter Benjamin

In a Hyperallergic roundup introduced by editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara, the publication highlights Paddy Johnson’s Art Problems column on coping with “toxic people” in the art world and Ed Simon’s opinion piece criticizing President Trump’s order to install content warning signs outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History alleging leftist bias. The newsletter also notes the deaths of two major artists: assemblage artist Betye Saar, who died four days before her 100th birthday, and performance artist Simone Forti, who died at 91. It further spotlights a new annual exhibition series at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía—home to Pablo Picasso’s 25-feet-wide by 11-feet-high “Guernica” (1937) since 1992—titled “History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme,” which places “Guernica” in dialogue with other works and foregrounds race as a pressing issue for Spanish art institutions.

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