{"id":1913103,"date":"2026-04-30T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1913103"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:00:02","slug":"trump-puts-his-face-on-the-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1913103","title":{"rendered":"Trump Puts His Face on the Passport"},"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\">Trump Puts His Face on the Passport<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Plus, John Yau on \u00c9douard Glissant\u2019s collection, Sotheby\u2019s holds a benefit auction for the Yale MFA program, and more.  <\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/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=\"2026-04-30\">April 30, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 3 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>The late philosopher \u00c9douard Glissant saw the world as an archipelago, a non-hierarchical cluster of distinct but connected islands. To him, art wasn\u2019t about ownership, but a commons \u2014 a living archive attentive to difference, but defined by relation and provisional alliances. It\u2019s a way of thinking that is \u201cpractically unheard of in America,\u201d critic John Yau writes in a review of an exhibition of Glissant\u2019s collection at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York. \u201cWe are the poorer for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tYep. As if to prove that point, the Trump administration announced this week that it plans to issue passports prominently displaying the president\u2019s portrait and signature. Rather than Glissant\u2019s vision of freedom \u2014\u00a0of movement, of association, of kinship across difference \u2014 the so-called \u201cLand of the Free\u201d has chosen to brand its passport with the very symbol of violently enforced borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tBut it\u2019s not all bad news out there \u2014\u00a0speaking of provisional alliances, Sotheby\u2019s is holding an auction to raise funds for Yale MFA scholarships. As Yale Dean Kymberly Pinder put it, the school is \u201cinvesting in a community that will continue to grow.\u201d Amen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/A250-Passport-Inside-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Special-edition US passport will feature Trump&#8217;s likeness and signature. (courtesy US State Department)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"trump-adds-his-face-to-the-us-passport\">Trump Adds His Face to the US Passport<\/h3>\n<p>The new passport design is an audacious escalation of the president\u2019s attempts to tag public resources with his name and likeness. | Isa Farfan<\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/AFAM.jpeg\" 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>Reclaiming the Self-Taught Artist\u2019s Creative Identity<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSelf-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists\u201d at the American Folk Art Museum offers rare first-time views, and always-free access, to over 90 works shifting art historical narratives.<\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/Howardena-Pindell--Untitled--123--2024--1--1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Howardena Pindell, \u201cUntitled #123\u201d (2024) (courtesy Sotheby\u2019s)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Yale School of Art is partnering with Sotheby\u2019s to host an auction benefiting scholarships for students in its Master of Fine Arts program, a collaboration that speaks to larger questions of affordability in higher arts education.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>George Herms, one of the founders of the West Coast Assemblage movement,  dies at age 90.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"art-review\">Art Review<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/9786589342595_6-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"x\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Jos\u00e9 Gamarra, \u201cL\u2019inaccessible&#8230;\u201d (1986\u201387) (photo courtesy M\u00e9morial ACTe, fonds R\u00e9gion Guadeloupe)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"%C3%A9douard-glissant%E2%80%99s-museum-as-archipelago\">\u00c9douard Glissant\u2019s Museum-as-Archipelago<\/h3>\n<p>An exhibition of his collection finds provisional alliances between artists, rather than reiterating established hierarchies. | John Yau<\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/BAThomas_10789_Disco.jpeg\" 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>NADA New York 2026 Welcomes 121 International Galleries<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The 12th edition of the New Art Dealers Alliance\u2019s signature fair presents an expanded selection of contemporary art from around the world. On view May 13\u201317.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1026466368--1--1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Late photographer Raghu Rai (photo Raajessh Kashyap\/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-raghu-rai-jack-thornell-and-jarvis-rockwell\">Remembering Raghu Rai, Jack Thornell, and Jarvis Rockwell<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor India\u2019s most celebrated photojournalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, and a multi-media artist. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Holly Wong on Aaron Short&#8217;s \u201cJoan Semmel Is Doing Her Best Work at 93\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">This article gives me so much hope. It proves that you can have a singular vision, go against the grain of art world trends and build a life of meaning and purpose. I am so grateful that Joan has begun to be recognized in significant ways but this late career recognition doesn&#8217;t define what she has already achieved, which is to courageously have a voice when no one else is listening.<\/div>\n<\/div>\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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/0001-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><i><em class=\"italic\">The Archipelago Conversations<\/em><\/i><span> by \u00c9douard Glissant with Hans Ulrich Obrist (courtesy Isolarii)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"%C3%A9douard-glissant-sought-to-undermine-the-european-ideological-underpinnings-of-colonization\">\u00c9douard Glissant Sought to Undermine the European Ideological Underpinnings of Colonization<\/h3>\n<p>In conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Glissant proposed an Art Museum of the Americas. | David Brazil<\/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\">Trump Puts His Face on the Passport<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Plus, John Yau on \u00c9douard Glissant\u2019s collection, Sotheby\u2019s holds a benefit auction for the Yale MFA program, and more.  <\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/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=\"2026-04-30\">April 30, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 3 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>The late philosopher \u00c9douard Glissant saw the world as an archipelago, a non-hierarchical cluster of distinct but connected islands. To him, art wasn\u2019t about ownership, but a commons \u2014 a living archive attentive to difference, but defined by relation and provisional alliances. It\u2019s a way of thinking that is \u201cpractically unheard of in America,\u201d critic John Yau writes in a review of an exhibition of Glissant\u2019s collection at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York. \u201cWe are the poorer for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tYep. As if to prove that point, the Trump administration announced this week that it plans to issue passports prominently displaying the president\u2019s portrait and signature. Rather than Glissant\u2019s vision of freedom \u2014\u00a0of movement, of association, of kinship across difference \u2014 the so-called \u201cLand of the Free\u201d has chosen to brand its passport with the very symbol of violently enforced borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tBut it\u2019s not all bad news out there \u2014\u00a0speaking of provisional alliances, Sotheby\u2019s is holding an auction to raise funds for Yale MFA scholarships. As Yale Dean Kymberly Pinder put it, the school is \u201cinvesting in a community that will continue to grow.\u201d Amen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/A250-Passport-Inside-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Special-edition US passport will feature Trump&#8217;s likeness and signature. (courtesy US State Department)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"trump-adds-his-face-to-the-us-passport\">Trump Adds His Face to the US Passport<\/h3>\n<p>The new passport design is an audacious escalation of the president\u2019s attempts to tag public resources with his name and likeness. | Isa Farfan<\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/AFAM.jpeg\" 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>Reclaiming the Self-Taught Artist\u2019s Creative Identity<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSelf-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists\u201d at the American Folk Art Museum offers rare first-time views, and always-free access, to over 90 works shifting art historical narratives.<\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/Howardena-Pindell--Untitled--123--2024--1--1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Howardena Pindell, \u201cUntitled #123\u201d (2024) (courtesy Sotheby\u2019s)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Yale School of Art is partnering with Sotheby\u2019s to host an auction benefiting scholarships for students in its Master of Fine Arts program, a collaboration that speaks to larger questions of affordability in higher arts education.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>George Herms, one of the founders of the West Coast Assemblage movement,  dies at age 90.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"art-review\">Art Review<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/9786589342595_6-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"x\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Jos\u00e9 Gamarra, \u201cL\u2019inaccessible&#8230;\u201d (1986\u201387) (photo courtesy M\u00e9morial ACTe, fonds R\u00e9gion Guadeloupe)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"%C3%A9douard-glissant%E2%80%99s-museum-as-archipelago\">\u00c9douard Glissant\u2019s Museum-as-Archipelago<\/h3>\n<p>An exhibition of his collection finds provisional alliances between artists, rather than reiterating established hierarchies. | John Yau<\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/BAThomas_10789_Disco.jpeg\" 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>NADA New York 2026 Welcomes 121 International Galleries<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The 12th edition of the New Art Dealers Alliance\u2019s signature fair presents an expanded selection of contemporary art from around the world. On view May 13\u201317.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1026466368--1--1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Late photographer Raghu Rai (photo Raajessh Kashyap\/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-raghu-rai-jack-thornell-and-jarvis-rockwell\">Remembering Raghu Rai, Jack Thornell, and Jarvis Rockwell<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor India\u2019s most celebrated photojournalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, and a multi-media artist. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Holly Wong on Aaron Short&#8217;s \u201cJoan Semmel Is Doing Her Best Work at 93\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">This article gives me so much hope. It proves that you can have a singular vision, go against the grain of art world trends and build a life of meaning and purpose. I am so grateful that Joan has begun to be recognized in significant ways but this late career recognition doesn&#8217;t define what she has already achieved, which is to courageously have a voice when no one else is listening.<\/div>\n<\/div>\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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/0001-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><i><em class=\"italic\">The Archipelago Conversations<\/em><\/i><span> by \u00c9douard Glissant with Hans Ulrich Obrist (courtesy Isolarii)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"%C3%A9douard-glissant-sought-to-undermine-the-european-ideological-underpinnings-of-colonization\">\u00c9douard Glissant Sought to Undermine the European Ideological Underpinnings of Colonization<\/h3>\n<p>In conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Glissant proposed an Art Museum of the Americas. | David Brazil<\/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>The late philosopher \u00c9douard Glissant saw the world as an archipelago, a non-hierarchical cluster of distinct but connected islands. To him, art wasn\u2019t about ownership, but a commons \u2014 a living archive attentive to difference, but defined by relation and provisional alliances. It\u2019s a way of thinking that is \u201cpractically unheard of in America,\u201d critic John Yau writes in a review of an exhibition of Glissant\u2019s collection at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York. \u201cWe are the poorer for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tYep. As if to prove that point, the Trump administration announced this week that it plans to issue passports prominently displaying the president\u2019s portrait and signature. Rather than Glissant\u2019s vision of freedom \u2014\u00a0of movement, of association, of kinship across difference \u2014 the so-called \u201cLand of the Free\u201d has chosen to brand its passport with the very symbol of violently enforced borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tBut it\u2019s not all bad news out there \u2014\u00a0speaking of provisional alliances, Sotheby\u2019s is holding an auction to raise funds for Yale MFA scholarships. As Yale Dean Kymberly Pinder put it, the school is \u201cinvesting in a community that will continue to grow.\u201d Amen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/A250-Passport-Inside-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Special-edition US passport will feature Trump&#8217;s likeness and signature. (courtesy US State Department)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"trump-adds-his-face-to-the-us-passport\">Trump Adds His Face to the US Passport<\/h3>\n<p>The new passport design is an audacious escalation of the president\u2019s attempts to tag public resources with his name and likeness. | Isa Farfan<\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/AFAM.jpeg\" 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>Reclaiming the Self-Taught Artist\u2019s Creative Identity<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSelf-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists\u201d at the American Folk Art Museum offers rare first-time views, and always-free access, to over 90 works shifting art historical narratives.<\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/Howardena-Pindell--Untitled--123--2024--1--1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Howardena Pindell, \u201cUntitled #123\u201d (2024) (courtesy Sotheby\u2019s)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Yale School of Art is partnering with Sotheby\u2019s to host an auction benefiting scholarships for students in its Master of Fine Arts program, a collaboration that speaks to larger questions of affordability in higher arts education.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>George Herms, one of the founders of the West Coast Assemblage movement,  dies at age 90.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"art-review\">Art Review<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/9786589342595_6-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"x\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Jos\u00e9 Gamarra, \u201cL\u2019inaccessible&#8230;\u201d (1986\u201387) (photo courtesy M\u00e9morial ACTe, fonds R\u00e9gion Guadeloupe)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"%C3%A9douard-glissant%E2%80%99s-museum-as-archipelago\">\u00c9douard Glissant\u2019s Museum-as-Archipelago<\/h3>\n<p>An exhibition of his collection finds provisional alliances between artists, rather than reiterating established hierarchies. | John Yau<\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/BAThomas_10789_Disco.jpeg\" 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>NADA New York 2026 Welcomes 121 International Galleries<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The 12th edition of the New Art Dealers Alliance\u2019s signature fair presents an expanded selection of contemporary art from around the world. On view May 13\u201317.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1026466368--1--1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Late photographer Raghu Rai (photo Raajessh Kashyap\/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-raghu-rai-jack-thornell-and-jarvis-rockwell\">Remembering Raghu Rai, Jack Thornell, and Jarvis Rockwell<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor India\u2019s most celebrated photojournalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, and a multi-media artist. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Holly Wong on Aaron Short&#8217;s \u201cJoan Semmel Is Doing Her Best Work at 93\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">This article gives me so much hope. It proves that you can have a singular vision, go against the grain of art world trends and build a life of meaning and purpose. I am so grateful that Joan has begun to be recognized in significant ways but this late career recognition doesn&#8217;t define what she has already achieved, which is to courageously have a voice when no one else is listening.<\/div>\n<\/div>\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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/0001-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><i><em class=\"italic\">The Archipelago Conversations<\/em><\/i><span> by \u00c9douard Glissant with Hans Ulrich Obrist (courtesy Isolarii)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"%C3%A9douard-glissant-sought-to-undermine-the-european-ideological-underpinnings-of-colonization\">\u00c9douard Glissant Sought to Undermine the European Ideological Underpinnings of Colonization<\/h3>\n<p>In conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Glissant proposed an Art Museum of the Americas. | David Brazil<\/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:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/04\/JemmaByun_SelfPortrait.jpg\" alt=\"SMFA at Tufts Presents Passages, the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">SMFA at Tufts Presents Passages, the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">On view from May 5 to 17 in Medford, Massachusetts, this exhibition represents the graduating class and their journeys through worlds visited and imaged. <\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">SMFA at Tufts<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/04\/CongressVotingIndependence1856x1350.jpg\" alt=\"Five Independent Souls: The Signers from New Jersey\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Five Independent Souls: The Signers from New Jersey<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">This exhibition at Morven Museum &amp; Garden in Princeton examines the lives of the Declaration\u2019s signers, and those they enslaved, through over 100 historic artifacts.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Morven Museum &amp; Garden<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/04\/Stong_BigRamp_2024---The-Johann-Joachim-Winckelmann-Sculpture-Park--27-panel-monotype-polyptych-with-etching-ink--flashe--and-watercolor-on-paper--9ft9in-x-21ft10in-1.jpg\" alt=\"NADA New York 2026 Welcomes 121 International Galleries\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">NADA New York 2026 Welcomes 121 International Galleries<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">The 12th edition of the New Art Dealers Alliance\u2019s signature fair presents an expanded selection of contemporary art from around the world. On view May 13\u201317.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA)<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/04\/Appel.jpg\" alt=\"Reclaiming the Self-Taught Artist\u2019s Creative Identity\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Reclaiming the Self-Taught Artist\u2019s Creative Identity<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">\u201cSelf-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists\u201d at the American Folk Art Museum offers rare first-time views, and always-free access, to over 90 works shifting art historical narratives.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">The American Folk Art Museum<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/trump-puts-his-face-on-the-passport\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Daily Newsletter Trump Puts His Face on the Passport Plus, John Yau on \u00c9douard Glissant\u2019s collection, Sotheby\u2019s holds a benefit auction for the Yale MFA program, and more. 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