Required Reading
Hyperallergic’s “Required Reading” roundup highlights recent arts-and-culture commentary, including Zoé Samudzi’s ArtReview essay on “American Inquisition,” a mid-March exhibition of paintings by Shiva Addanki and Nikholis Planck at No Place Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. Samudzi notes the show’s title references lines by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in solidarity with detained Algerian-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, and its conceptual core draws on Mike Davis’s Buda’s Wagon (2007) about car bombs and urban insurgency. The roundup also cites Kyle Chayka in The New Yorker on artists embracing imperfection as a response to AI-generated “tasteslop,” a term attributed to trend forecaster Emily Segal, with examples including a marker-like Weezer festival poster and Picador’s reissued Roberto Bolaño covers styled like amateur sketches. It further points to BBC reporting by Henry Moore on the resurfacing of a Nazi-looted Portrait of a Young Girl by Toon Kelder, linked by investigator Arthur Brand to Jacques Goudstikker’s looted collection and a 1940 auction listing it as item number 92.
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This story was covered in Mergers, Loot, and Museums in War Mode