{"id":1957561,"date":"2026-05-25T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1957561"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:00:02","slug":"brent-sikkemas-husband-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1957561","title":{"rendered":"Brent Sikkema\u2019s Husband Convicted"},"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\">Brent Sikkema\u2019s Husband Convicted<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Also: Columbia University\u2019s MFA show, a new Anni Albers biography, and Karla Knight\u2019s cosmic codes.<\/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=\"2026-05-25\">May 25, 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>In January 2024, news about Brent Sikkema&#8217;s brutal murder in Brazil shocked and horrified the art community. Last week, a federal jury found his estranged husband, Daniel Sikkema, guilty of arranging the murder. Our senior editor Valentina Di Liscia has the details of this grim story.<\/p>\n<p>Also today, a peek into the ideas brewing among the latest crop of MFA students at Columbia University, the secret life of Anni Albers, and Karla Knight\u2019s cosmic paintings. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/640x362.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tHusband Found Guilty of Scheming Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tA federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty for his role in the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema. The 75-year-old gallerist was stabbed 18 times in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse in the early hours of January 14, 2024, in a brutal crime that shocked the art world and left Sikkema\u2019s loved ones searching for answers. | Valentina Di Liscia\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Unionized staff at the Ohio State University&#8217;s Wexner Center for the Arts officially called for the renaming of the institution and other campus buildings due to Les Wexner&#8217;s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.<\/li>\n<li>Artist Alejandro Valencia\u2019s work in the Columbia University MFA show is an\u00a0indictment of the school\u2019s crackdown on pro-Palestine activists, including a student who says she has been denied her degree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Anni-Albers_Photograph-by-Josef-Albers_ca.-1960_---The-Josef-and-Anni-Albers-Foundation-Artists-Rights-Society--ARS---New-York--2026-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAnni Albers Wasn\u2019t Afraid to Start From Zero<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tYou recognize Anni Albers from her revolutionary, abstract woven artworks, incisive essays, books, art prints, or fabric designs. <\/p>\n<p>But you might not know about the artist\u2019s obsession with white blouses, how much she delighted in English-language idioms, and her penchant for extra-crispy Kentucky Fried Chicken. <\/p>\n<p>Packed with lively detail and illuminating anecdotes, Nicholas Fox Weber\u2019s <em>Anni Albers: A Life<\/em> traces the historic sweep of the artist\u2019s biography and career, from her birth to a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin in 1899 to her 1933 escape from Nazi Germany to her later years in Connecticut. | Julie Schneider\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tKarla Knight\u2019s Cosmic Conspiracies<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhat to make of such half-familiar signs? Are they richly composed blueprints for mysterious systems connected to extraterrestrial lifeforms \u2014 schematics for advanced engines that could guide us toward wormholes to new coordinates of potential? Or attempts at mapping some underlying substrate of the universe? Such questions emerge from the shifting arrays in paintings and tapestries in <em>Orbit<\/em>. | Brian Karl\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"features\">Features<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/focus-fair.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tHuman Connection Cuts Through Technology at Focus Art Fair<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThe show, New York\u2019s only art fair dedicated to contemporary Asian art, featured uniquely tender subversions of this year\u2019s topical theme.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_0812---Kevin-Callahan-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1199\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA View From the Easel<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tKevin Callahan marks three years in his studio after losing his partner of 39 years and moving to a new home. He still finds reasons to smile as he paints and draws under the California sun.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"memorable-moment\">Memorable Moment<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Memorable-Moment-5.25.26.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/helen-m-post-aa-at-bmc-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1199\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAnni Albers\u2019s Thoughts on Textiles Loom Large<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tOn Weaving offers a model for how to write in a way that incorporates theoretical examination alongside practical content; in it Anni Albers provides valuable \u2014 and often overlooked \u2014 thoughts on art and creative work. | Becky Peterson\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\">Brent Sikkema\u2019s Husband Convicted<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Also: Columbia University\u2019s MFA show, a new Anni Albers biography, and Karla Knight\u2019s cosmic codes.<\/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=\"2026-05-25\">May 25, 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>In January 2024, news about Brent Sikkema&#8217;s brutal murder in Brazil shocked and horrified the art community. Last week, a federal jury found his estranged husband, Daniel Sikkema, guilty of arranging the murder. Our senior editor Valentina Di Liscia has the details of this grim story.<\/p>\n<p>Also today, a peek into the ideas brewing among the latest crop of MFA students at Columbia University, the secret life of Anni Albers, and Karla Knight\u2019s cosmic paintings. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/640x362.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tHusband Found Guilty of Scheming Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tA federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty for his role in the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema. The 75-year-old gallerist was stabbed 18 times in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse in the early hours of January 14, 2024, in a brutal crime that shocked the art world and left Sikkema\u2019s loved ones searching for answers. | Valentina Di Liscia\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Unionized staff at the Ohio State University&#8217;s Wexner Center for the Arts officially called for the renaming of the institution and other campus buildings due to Les Wexner&#8217;s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.<\/li>\n<li>Artist Alejandro Valencia\u2019s work in the Columbia University MFA show is an\u00a0indictment of the school\u2019s crackdown on pro-Palestine activists, including a student who says she has been denied her degree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Anni-Albers_Photograph-by-Josef-Albers_ca.-1960_---The-Josef-and-Anni-Albers-Foundation-Artists-Rights-Society--ARS---New-York--2026-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAnni Albers Wasn\u2019t Afraid to Start From Zero<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tYou recognize Anni Albers from her revolutionary, abstract woven artworks, incisive essays, books, art prints, or fabric designs. <\/p>\n<p>But you might not know about the artist\u2019s obsession with white blouses, how much she delighted in English-language idioms, and her penchant for extra-crispy Kentucky Fried Chicken. <\/p>\n<p>Packed with lively detail and illuminating anecdotes, Nicholas Fox Weber\u2019s <em>Anni Albers: A Life<\/em> traces the historic sweep of the artist\u2019s biography and career, from her birth to a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin in 1899 to her 1933 escape from Nazi Germany to her later years in Connecticut. | Julie Schneider\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tKarla Knight\u2019s Cosmic Conspiracies<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhat to make of such half-familiar signs? Are they richly composed blueprints for mysterious systems connected to extraterrestrial lifeforms \u2014 schematics for advanced engines that could guide us toward wormholes to new coordinates of potential? Or attempts at mapping some underlying substrate of the universe? Such questions emerge from the shifting arrays in paintings and tapestries in <em>Orbit<\/em>. | Brian Karl\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"features\">Features<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/focus-fair.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tHuman Connection Cuts Through Technology at Focus Art Fair<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThe show, New York\u2019s only art fair dedicated to contemporary Asian art, featured uniquely tender subversions of this year\u2019s topical theme.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_0812---Kevin-Callahan-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1199\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA View From the Easel<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tKevin Callahan marks three years in his studio after losing his partner of 39 years and moving to a new home. He still finds reasons to smile as he paints and draws under the California sun.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"memorable-moment\">Memorable Moment<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Memorable-Moment-5.25.26.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/helen-m-post-aa-at-bmc-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1199\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAnni Albers\u2019s Thoughts on Textiles Loom Large<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tOn Weaving offers a model for how to write in a way that incorporates theoretical examination alongside practical content; in it Anni Albers provides valuable \u2014 and often overlooked \u2014 thoughts on art and creative work. | Becky Peterson\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\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>In January 2024, news about Brent Sikkema&#8217;s brutal murder in Brazil shocked and horrified the art community. Last week, a federal jury found his estranged husband, Daniel Sikkema, guilty of arranging the murder. Our senior editor Valentina Di Liscia has the details of this grim story.<\/p>\n<p>Also today, a peek into the ideas brewing among the latest crop of MFA students at Columbia University, the secret life of Anni Albers, and Karla Knight\u2019s cosmic paintings. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/640x362.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tHusband Found Guilty of Scheming Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tA federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty for his role in the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema. The 75-year-old gallerist was stabbed 18 times in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse in the early hours of January 14, 2024, in a brutal crime that shocked the art world and left Sikkema\u2019s loved ones searching for answers. | Valentina Di Liscia\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Unionized staff at the Ohio State University&#8217;s Wexner Center for the Arts officially called for the renaming of the institution and other campus buildings due to Les Wexner&#8217;s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.<\/li>\n<li>Artist Alejandro Valencia\u2019s work in the Columbia University MFA show is an\u00a0indictment of the school\u2019s crackdown on pro-Palestine activists, including a student who says she has been denied her degree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Anni-Albers_Photograph-by-Josef-Albers_ca.-1960_---The-Josef-and-Anni-Albers-Foundation-Artists-Rights-Society--ARS---New-York--2026-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAnni Albers Wasn\u2019t Afraid to Start From Zero<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tYou recognize Anni Albers from her revolutionary, abstract woven artworks, incisive essays, books, art prints, or fabric designs. <\/p>\n<p>But you might not know about the artist\u2019s obsession with white blouses, how much she delighted in English-language idioms, and her penchant for extra-crispy Kentucky Fried Chicken. <\/p>\n<p>Packed with lively detail and illuminating anecdotes, Nicholas Fox Weber\u2019s <em>Anni Albers: A Life<\/em> traces the historic sweep of the artist\u2019s biography and career, from her birth to a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin in 1899 to her 1933 escape from Nazi Germany to her later years in Connecticut. | Julie Schneider\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tKarla Knight\u2019s Cosmic Conspiracies<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhat to make of such half-familiar signs? Are they richly composed blueprints for mysterious systems connected to extraterrestrial lifeforms \u2014 schematics for advanced engines that could guide us toward wormholes to new coordinates of potential? Or attempts at mapping some underlying substrate of the universe? Such questions emerge from the shifting arrays in paintings and tapestries in <em>Orbit<\/em>. | Brian Karl\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"features\">Features<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/focus-fair.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tHuman Connection Cuts Through Technology at Focus Art Fair<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThe show, New York\u2019s only art fair dedicated to contemporary Asian art, featured uniquely tender subversions of this year\u2019s topical theme.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_0812---Kevin-Callahan-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1199\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA View From the Easel<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tKevin Callahan marks three years in his studio after losing his partner of 39 years and moving to a new home. He still finds reasons to smile as he paints and draws under the California sun.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"memorable-moment\">Memorable Moment<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Memorable-Moment-5.25.26.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/helen-m-post-aa-at-bmc-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1199\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAnni Albers\u2019s Thoughts on Textiles Loom Large<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tOn Weaving offers a model for how to write in a way that incorporates theoretical examination alongside practical content; in it Anni Albers provides valuable \u2014 and often overlooked \u2014 thoughts on art and creative work. | Becky Peterson\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/05\/balasubramanian_2400x1350.jpg\" alt=\"Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Artist Janani Balasubramanian and astrophysicist Natalie Gosnell reimagine collaboration through a values-based and joyfully undisciplined practice.\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">University of California Press<\/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\/05\/CMoG_Image_5.png\" alt=\"Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Highlighting works from the 1960s through today, this survey at the Corning Museum of Glass celebrates the legacies of women artists who helped shape the Studio Glass Movement in the US.\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Corning Museum of Glass<\/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\/05\/Still-in-Sound_reverbimpulses_CSM.jpg\" alt=\"Still in Sound\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Still in Sound<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Sound artists compose sonic and multisensory interpretations of abstract paintings for this new exhibition at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado. <\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Clyfford Still Museum<\/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\/05\/1Jai-Perez-in-rehearsal--Photo-by-Daniel-Jackson-for-Embassy--Interactive-.jpg\" alt=\"ArtPhilly Presents \u201cWhat Now: 2026\u201d\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">ArtPhilly Presents \u201cWhat Now: 2026\u201d<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">The five-week city-wide festival will feature over 30 newly-commissioned works created by Philadelphia artists to spark important conversations about the future of the United States.\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">ArtPhilly<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/daily-newsletter-5-25-25\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Daily Newsletter Brent Sikkema\u2019s Husband Convicted Also: Columbia University\u2019s MFA show, a new Anni Albers biography, and Karla Knight\u2019s cosmic codes. Hyperallergic May 25, 2026\u2014 3 min read In January 2024, news about Brent Sikkema&#8217;s brutal murder in Brazil shocked and horrified the art community. Last week, a federal jury found his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,69],"class_list":["post-1957561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-hyperallergic-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}