{"id":1825154,"date":"2026-03-12T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1825154"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:00:28","slug":"the-problem-with-art-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1825154","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Art Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><main class=\"gh-main\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">The Problem With Art Awards<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Lucian Freud&#8217;s paintings of &#8220;lostness,&#8221; the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff. <\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-03-12\">March 12, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Are art awards meant to provide artists with recognition and material support, or to reinforce power structures and maintain the status quo? Damien Davis argues it&#8217;s the latter in an opinion piece just in time for awards season. Give it a read.<\/p>\n<p>Also today: disturbing revelations from the University of North Texas, which nixed an artist&#8217;s anti-ICE show last month, Michael Glover on Lucian Freud&#8217;s paintings of &#8220;lostness,&#8221; Lori Waxman on a quirky mid-century modernism show, and a tribute to Pedro Friedeberg, inventor of the &#8220;Hand Chair,&#8221; who died last week.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief <\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2250198634-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\"><figcaption><span>Beeple \u201cRegular Animals\u201d (2025) during the Art Basel Awards Night in Miami Beach on December 04, 2025 (photo Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for Art Basel)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"awards-season-and-the-management-of-cultural-power\">Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power<\/h3>\n<p>What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way of organizing power, determining not only what is seen, but who is positioned to benefit from that visibility. | Damien Davis<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/Vijgen-04_AES_Key_Generator-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, \u201cVideo Craft\u201d brings the craft roots of emerging film technologies into focus. Now on view in San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-11-at-4.19.50---PM-1.webp\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1470\" height=\"827\"><figcaption><span>Laura Phipps, the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (photo by and courtesy Roeg Cohen)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Laura Phipps, former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been tapped as the new director of the Gochman Family Collection.<\/li>\n<li>Text messages reveal how the president and provost of the University of North Texas discussed removing artworks \u201cof concern\u201d before shuttering Victor Qui\u00f1onez\u2019s anti-ICE exhibition, alarming free speech advocates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/Girl-in-Bed--1952.--See-image-sheet-for-mandatory-credits--1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Lucian Freud<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">, \u201d<\/em><\/i><span>Girl\u00a0in Bed\u201d (1952)\u00a0(\u00a9 The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2026 \/ Bridgeman Images. Photo \u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London. Lent by a private collection, courtesy of Ordovas)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"lucian-freud-mastered-the-art-of-lostness\">Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness<\/h3>\n<p>As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves. | Michael Glover <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"mid-century-modernism-goes-rogue-in-%E2%80%9Cchair-ish%E2%80%9D\">Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in \u201cChair-ish\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces. | Lori Waxman<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/4.SusanKlecknerUntitled.SusanKlecknerPapersRobertS.CoxSpecialCollectionsandUniversityArchiveResearchCenterUMassAmherstLibraries-1.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x676\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This exhibition at Haverford College\u2019s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"in-memoriam\">In Memoriam<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/image-55-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Pedro Friedeberg at an opening in 2016 (photo NotimexTV via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0; edit Lisa Yin Zhang\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-pedro-friedeberg-thaddeus-mosley-and-liliana-angulo-cort%C3%A9s\">Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cort\u00e9s<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Holly Wong on Ren\u00e9e Reizman\u2019s \u201cAli Eyal Gives Testimony\u201d:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">I love Ali\u2019s work so much. His paintings and performances translate into such direct and deeply felt experiences. They give me hope that art still has the power to be authentic, transformational and revelatory. I send him my very best wishes to be recognized and heard. Thanks also to Ren\u00e9e Reizman for giving voice and focus on this wonderful artist. I really appreciate her writing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-grey kg-cta-minimal    \" data-layout=\"minimal\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>FEATURED OPPORTUNITY<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>University of Rochester Department of Art &amp; Art History \u2013 Fanny Knapp Allen Artist in Residence<\/strong><\/b><br \/><span>Artists whose practices centers on fiber-based and textile processes can apply for this one- or two-year position beginning July 1, 2026. The salary is between $70,000 and $130,000 (commensurate with qualifications), plus more support for research and production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Deadline: April 3, 2026 |\u00a0<\/span><span>apply.interfolio.com\/181562<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>See more in\u00a0this month\u2019s list of opportunities\u00a0for artists, writers, and art workers!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/pg-11.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Alvar Aalto, \u201cPaimio Armchair\u201d (1931), from 100 Midcentury Chairs\u00a0(photo \u00a9Christie\u2019s Images Limited, 2016)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"the-stories-of-100-midcentury-chairs\">The Stories of 100 Midcentury Chairs<\/h3>\n<p>Midcentury modernism continues to inspire our desire to sit on something beautiful and fashionable. | Claire Voon<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"the-chairs-that-architects-have-designed\">The Chairs that Architects Have Designed<\/h3>\n<p>Before he designed the soaring 1962 TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, Eero Saarinen experimented with gravity-defying design through his one-legged white and red Tulip chair. | Allison Meier<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">The Problem With Art Awards<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Lucian Freud&#8217;s paintings of &#8220;lostness,&#8221; the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff. <\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-03-12\">March 12, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Are art awards meant to provide artists with recognition and material support, or to reinforce power structures and maintain the status quo? Damien Davis argues it&#8217;s the latter in an opinion piece just in time for awards season. Give it a read.<\/p>\n<p>Also today: disturbing revelations from the University of North Texas, which nixed an artist&#8217;s anti-ICE show last month, Michael Glover on Lucian Freud&#8217;s paintings of &#8220;lostness,&#8221; Lori Waxman on a quirky mid-century modernism show, and a tribute to Pedro Friedeberg, inventor of the &#8220;Hand Chair,&#8221; who died last week.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief <\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2250198634-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\"><figcaption><span>Beeple \u201cRegular Animals\u201d (2025) during the Art Basel Awards Night in Miami Beach on December 04, 2025 (photo Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for Art Basel)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"awards-season-and-the-management-of-cultural-power\">Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power<\/h3>\n<p>What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way of organizing power, determining not only what is seen, but who is positioned to benefit from that visibility. | Damien Davis<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/Vijgen-04_AES_Key_Generator-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, \u201cVideo Craft\u201d brings the craft roots of emerging film technologies into focus. Now on view in San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-11-at-4.19.50---PM-1.webp\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1470\" height=\"827\"><figcaption><span>Laura Phipps, the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (photo by and courtesy Roeg Cohen)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Laura Phipps, former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been tapped as the new director of the Gochman Family Collection.<\/li>\n<li>Text messages reveal how the president and provost of the University of North Texas discussed removing artworks \u201cof concern\u201d before shuttering Victor Qui\u00f1onez\u2019s anti-ICE exhibition, alarming free speech advocates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/Girl-in-Bed--1952.--See-image-sheet-for-mandatory-credits--1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Lucian Freud<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">, \u201d<\/em><\/i><span>Girl\u00a0in Bed\u201d (1952)\u00a0(\u00a9 The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2026 \/ Bridgeman Images. Photo \u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London. Lent by a private collection, courtesy of Ordovas)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"lucian-freud-mastered-the-art-of-lostness\">Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness<\/h3>\n<p>As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves. | Michael Glover <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"mid-century-modernism-goes-rogue-in-%E2%80%9Cchair-ish%E2%80%9D\">Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in \u201cChair-ish\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces. | Lori Waxman<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/4.SusanKlecknerUntitled.SusanKlecknerPapersRobertS.CoxSpecialCollectionsandUniversityArchiveResearchCenterUMassAmherstLibraries-1.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x676\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This exhibition at Haverford College\u2019s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"in-memoriam\">In Memoriam<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/image-55-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Pedro Friedeberg at an opening in 2016 (photo NotimexTV via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0; edit Lisa Yin Zhang\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-pedro-friedeberg-thaddeus-mosley-and-liliana-angulo-cort%C3%A9s\">Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cort\u00e9s<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Holly Wong on Ren\u00e9e Reizman\u2019s \u201cAli Eyal Gives Testimony\u201d:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">I love Ali\u2019s work so much. His paintings and performances translate into such direct and deeply felt experiences. They give me hope that art still has the power to be authentic, transformational and revelatory. I send him my very best wishes to be recognized and heard. Thanks also to Ren\u00e9e Reizman for giving voice and focus on this wonderful artist. I really appreciate her writing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-grey kg-cta-minimal    \" data-layout=\"minimal\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>FEATURED OPPORTUNITY<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>University of Rochester Department of Art &amp; Art History \u2013 Fanny Knapp Allen Artist in Residence<\/strong><\/b><br \/><span>Artists whose practices centers on fiber-based and textile processes can apply for this one- or two-year position beginning July 1, 2026. The salary is between $70,000 and $130,000 (commensurate with qualifications), plus more support for research and production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Deadline: April 3, 2026 |\u00a0<\/span><span>apply.interfolio.com\/181562<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>See more in\u00a0this month\u2019s list of opportunities\u00a0for artists, writers, and art workers!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/pg-11.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Alvar Aalto, \u201cPaimio Armchair\u201d (1931), from 100 Midcentury Chairs\u00a0(photo \u00a9Christie\u2019s Images Limited, 2016)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"the-stories-of-100-midcentury-chairs\">The Stories of 100 Midcentury Chairs<\/h3>\n<p>Midcentury modernism continues to inspire our desire to sit on something beautiful and fashionable. | Claire Voon<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"the-chairs-that-architects-have-designed\">The Chairs that Architects Have Designed<\/h3>\n<p>Before he designed the soaring 1962 TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, Eero Saarinen experimented with gravity-defying design through his one-legged white and red Tulip chair. | Allison Meier<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Are art awards meant to provide artists with recognition and material support, or to reinforce power structures and maintain the status quo? Damien Davis argues it&#8217;s the latter in an opinion piece just in time for awards season. Give it a read.<\/p>\n<p>Also today: disturbing revelations from the University of North Texas, which nixed an artist&#8217;s anti-ICE show last month, Michael Glover on Lucian Freud&#8217;s paintings of &#8220;lostness,&#8221; Lori Waxman on a quirky mid-century modernism show, and a tribute to Pedro Friedeberg, inventor of the &#8220;Hand Chair,&#8221; who died last week.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief <\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2250198634-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\"><figcaption><span>Beeple \u201cRegular Animals\u201d (2025) during the Art Basel Awards Night in Miami Beach on December 04, 2025 (photo Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for Art Basel)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"awards-season-and-the-management-of-cultural-power\">Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power<\/h3>\n<p>What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way of organizing power, determining not only what is seen, but who is positioned to benefit from that visibility. | Damien Davis<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/Vijgen-04_AES_Key_Generator-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, \u201cVideo Craft\u201d brings the craft roots of emerging film technologies into focus. Now on view in San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-11-at-4.19.50---PM-1.webp\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1470\" height=\"827\"><figcaption><span>Laura Phipps, the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (photo by and courtesy Roeg Cohen)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Laura Phipps, former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been tapped as the new director of the Gochman Family Collection.<\/li>\n<li>Text messages reveal how the president and provost of the University of North Texas discussed removing artworks \u201cof concern\u201d before shuttering Victor Qui\u00f1onez\u2019s anti-ICE exhibition, alarming free speech advocates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/Girl-in-Bed--1952.--See-image-sheet-for-mandatory-credits--1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Lucian Freud<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">, \u201d<\/em><\/i><span>Girl\u00a0in Bed\u201d (1952)\u00a0(\u00a9 The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2026 \/ Bridgeman Images. Photo \u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London. Lent by a private collection, courtesy of Ordovas)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"lucian-freud-mastered-the-art-of-lostness\">Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness<\/h3>\n<p>As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves. | Michael Glover <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"mid-century-modernism-goes-rogue-in-%E2%80%9Cchair-ish%E2%80%9D\">Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in \u201cChair-ish\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces. | Lori Waxman<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/4.SusanKlecknerUntitled.SusanKlecknerPapersRobertS.CoxSpecialCollectionsandUniversityArchiveResearchCenterUMassAmherstLibraries-1.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x676\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This exhibition at Haverford College\u2019s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"in-memoriam\">In Memoriam<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/image-55-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Pedro Friedeberg at an opening in 2016 (photo NotimexTV via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0; edit Lisa Yin Zhang\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-pedro-friedeberg-thaddeus-mosley-and-liliana-angulo-cort%C3%A9s\">Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cort\u00e9s<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Holly Wong on Ren\u00e9e Reizman\u2019s \u201cAli Eyal Gives Testimony\u201d:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">I love Ali\u2019s work so much. His paintings and performances translate into such direct and deeply felt experiences. They give me hope that art still has the power to be authentic, transformational and revelatory. I send him my very best wishes to be recognized and heard. Thanks also to Ren\u00e9e Reizman for giving voice and focus on this wonderful artist. I really appreciate her writing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-grey kg-cta-minimal    \" data-layout=\"minimal\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>FEATURED OPPORTUNITY<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>University of Rochester Department of Art &amp; Art History \u2013 Fanny Knapp Allen Artist in Residence<\/strong><\/b><br \/><span>Artists whose practices centers on fiber-based and textile processes can apply for this one- or two-year position beginning July 1, 2026. The salary is between $70,000 and $130,000 (commensurate with qualifications), plus more support for research and production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Deadline: April 3, 2026 |\u00a0<\/span><span>apply.interfolio.com\/181562<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>See more in\u00a0this month\u2019s list of opportunities\u00a0for artists, writers, and art workers!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/pg-11.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Alvar Aalto, \u201cPaimio Armchair\u201d (1931), from 100 Midcentury Chairs\u00a0(photo \u00a9Christie\u2019s Images Limited, 2016)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"the-stories-of-100-midcentury-chairs\">The Stories of 100 Midcentury Chairs<\/h3>\n<p>Midcentury modernism continues to inspire our desire to sit on something beautiful and fashionable. | Claire Voon<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"the-chairs-that-architects-have-designed\">The Chairs that Architects Have Designed<\/h3>\n<p>Before he designed the soaring 1962 TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, Eero Saarinen experimented with gravity-defying design through his one-legged white and red Tulip chair. | Allison Meier<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/03\/PortraitofAlikhanian.jpg\" alt=\"Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">A new English-language monograph repositions the Armenian\u2013Lebanese painter as a cosmopolitan modernist whose work demands to be read beyond national canons.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Armenian Arts Council<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/03\/PNG-image-1.png\" alt=\"Deepen Your Creative Practice at Vermont Studio Center\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Deepen Your Creative Practice at Vermont Studio Center<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Sessions include resident presentations, open studios, and the acclaimed Visiting Artist &amp; Writer program. Applications are open for early 2027.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Vermont Studio Center<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/03\/Vijgen-04_AES_Key_Generator.png\" alt=\"Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, \u201cVideo Craft\u201d brings the craft roots of emerging film technologies into focus. Now on view in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Museum of Craft and Design<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/03\/CA200040-2400x1350.jpg\" alt=\"Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">As the lake\u2019s ecological crisis worsens, the artist\u2019s new site-specific installation in Salt Lake City renders audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Wake the Great Salt Lake<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/the-problem-with-art-awards\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Daily Newsletter The Problem With Art Awards Lucian Freud&#8217;s paintings of &#8220;lostness,&#8221; the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff. 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