{"id":2019959,"date":"2026-06-30T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2019959"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:00:06","slug":"if-artists-mapped-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2019959","title":{"rendered":"If Artists Mapped the World"},"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\">If Artists Mapped the World<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Three shows unravel the politics of cartography. Also, why does a new Messi statue look like \u2026 that?<\/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=\"2026-06-30\">June 30, 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>Can artists counter-map the world? Today, Venezuelan writer Clara Maria Apostolatos explores how artists subvert the fraught practices of cartography from the inside out. As relief efforts following last week\u2019s deadly earthquakes lay bare the politics of intervention in Latin America, Apostolatos draws our attention to the quietly rebellious work of Venezuelan conceptual artist Claudio Perna, Chicano artist Sandy Rodriguez, and Dominican artist Firelei B\u00e1ez, who embrace maps as a way to destabilize the truths we think we know.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Upstate New York, artist Steel Stillman and many others mourn the closure of Nancy Shaver\u2019s beloved store, and Taliesin Thomas catches up with the artists who participated in Upstate Art Weekend \u2014 from an art show in a stable to a protest exhibition comprised entirely of chairs.<\/p>\n<p>Further down the river, New York City showed out for Pride as virulent legislation takes aim at trans and queer communities. Photographer Arielle Shannon captured some of the intimate, joyous moments at the sweltering parade through Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a new sculpture of soccer legend Lionel Messi has landed in Argentina. It\u2019s phallic, it\u2019s 85 feet tall, and, as Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar explains, it\u2019s the subject of some truly incredible memes. I\u2019ll let you see them for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor<\/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\/06\/maps.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe Artists Countermapping the World<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tMaps appear objective, yet they are built from choices that frame a particular view of the world. They are doubly instructional in the knowledge they share and in the ways they orient the viewer, offering a surface on which land appears ordered, bounded, and knowable. A run of recent exhibitions in New York of the works of late Venezuelan conceptual artist Claudio Perna, Chicano artist Sandy Rodriguez, and Dominican artist Firelei B\u00e1ez brings that charged surface into focus across generations of artists who take up cartography\u2019s capacity for orientation and put it to work otherwise: turning maps from tools of classification into frameworks for examining movement, memory, and power.  | Clara Maria Apostolatos\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/06\/zane-bennett-ad.jpg\" 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>Lucid Perturbations: The Sewn Drawings and Books of China Marks<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This exhibition at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art marks the first major solo exhibition of the artist\u2019s hypnagogic artworks.<\/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\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/lionel-messi-tweet.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The world&#8217;s tallest Lionel Messi statue was unveiled in the Patagonian town of Cutral C\u00f3. Featuring a crotch-level and rather phallic World Cup trophy, the sculpture immediately caused a stir online.<\/li>\n<li>A Texas\u00a0tattoo artist\u00a0has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving a box of political pamphlets and zines featuring \u201canti-government and anti-Trump sentiments,\u201d prompting outrage from First Amendment advocates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"photo-essay\">Photo Essay<\/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\/06\/pride-parade.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tSee Photos From a Sweltering, Joyous NYC Pride March<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tI joined more than 75,000 marchers and one million spectators on Sunday, June 28, to document the parade on Stonewall\u2019s 57th anniversary. | Arielle Shannon\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"upstate-new-york\">Upstate New York<\/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\/06\/upstate-art-weekend-feature.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAt Upstate Art Weekend, Cars and Barns Are Galleries<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tDuring the seventh annual event, hundreds of artists proved that art has never been confined to \u201cwhite cube\u201d galleries. | Taliesin Thomas\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tNancy Shaver\u2019s Beloved Store in Hudson to Close After 30 Years<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tFor many, Henry is a lot more than just another Upstate New York antiques shop. | Steel Stillman\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">You inspired me to write my own Congresswoman, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez from Washington&#8217;s Third, to educate her on this issue and ask her to support it. She&#8217;s VERY pro-worker, which is how she, a Dem, has twice won in this district with a l-o-o-n-g history of electing Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you, dear reader, support artist resale royalties, please write your own Representatives and Senators. Our elected officials most easily grasp what matters to us when we tell them.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jozanne Rabyor on \u201cWho Will Fight for Artists\u2019 Rights in Congress?\u201d<\/p>\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\/06\/rodin.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tDid Auguste Rodin Steal From Camille Claudel?<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhat went so wrong that the brilliant sculptor\u2019s work became so little known? Simply put, she entered Rodin\u2019s studio. | Mary Sherman\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\">If Artists Mapped the World<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Three shows unravel the politics of cartography. Also, why does a new Messi statue look like \u2026 that?<\/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=\"2026-06-30\">June 30, 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>Can artists counter-map the world? Today, Venezuelan writer Clara Maria Apostolatos explores how artists subvert the fraught practices of cartography from the inside out. As relief efforts following last week\u2019s deadly earthquakes lay bare the politics of intervention in Latin America, Apostolatos draws our attention to the quietly rebellious work of Venezuelan conceptual artist Claudio Perna, Chicano artist Sandy Rodriguez, and Dominican artist Firelei B\u00e1ez, who embrace maps as a way to destabilize the truths we think we know.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Upstate New York, artist Steel Stillman and many others mourn the closure of Nancy Shaver\u2019s beloved store, and Taliesin Thomas catches up with the artists who participated in Upstate Art Weekend \u2014 from an art show in a stable to a protest exhibition comprised entirely of chairs.<\/p>\n<p>Further down the river, New York City showed out for Pride as virulent legislation takes aim at trans and queer communities. Photographer Arielle Shannon captured some of the intimate, joyous moments at the sweltering parade through Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a new sculpture of soccer legend Lionel Messi has landed in Argentina. It\u2019s phallic, it\u2019s 85 feet tall, and, as Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar explains, it\u2019s the subject of some truly incredible memes. I\u2019ll let you see them for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor<\/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\/06\/maps.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe Artists Countermapping the World<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tMaps appear objective, yet they are built from choices that frame a particular view of the world. They are doubly instructional in the knowledge they share and in the ways they orient the viewer, offering a surface on which land appears ordered, bounded, and knowable. A run of recent exhibitions in New York of the works of late Venezuelan conceptual artist Claudio Perna, Chicano artist Sandy Rodriguez, and Dominican artist Firelei B\u00e1ez brings that charged surface into focus across generations of artists who take up cartography\u2019s capacity for orientation and put it to work otherwise: turning maps from tools of classification into frameworks for examining movement, memory, and power.  | Clara Maria Apostolatos\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/06\/zane-bennett-ad.jpg\" 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>Lucid Perturbations: The Sewn Drawings and Books of China Marks<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This exhibition at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art marks the first major solo exhibition of the artist\u2019s hypnagogic artworks.<\/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\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/lionel-messi-tweet.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The world&#8217;s tallest Lionel Messi statue was unveiled in the Patagonian town of Cutral C\u00f3. Featuring a crotch-level and rather phallic World Cup trophy, the sculpture immediately caused a stir online.<\/li>\n<li>A Texas\u00a0tattoo artist\u00a0has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving a box of political pamphlets and zines featuring \u201canti-government and anti-Trump sentiments,\u201d prompting outrage from First Amendment advocates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"photo-essay\">Photo Essay<\/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\/06\/pride-parade.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tSee Photos From a Sweltering, Joyous NYC Pride March<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tI joined more than 75,000 marchers and one million spectators on Sunday, June 28, to document the parade on Stonewall\u2019s 57th anniversary. | Arielle Shannon\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"upstate-new-york\">Upstate New York<\/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\/06\/upstate-art-weekend-feature.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAt Upstate Art Weekend, Cars and Barns Are Galleries<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tDuring the seventh annual event, hundreds of artists proved that art has never been confined to \u201cwhite cube\u201d galleries. | Taliesin Thomas\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tNancy Shaver\u2019s Beloved Store in Hudson to Close After 30 Years<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tFor many, Henry is a lot more than just another Upstate New York antiques shop. | Steel Stillman\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">You inspired me to write my own Congresswoman, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez from Washington&#8217;s Third, to educate her on this issue and ask her to support it. She&#8217;s VERY pro-worker, which is how she, a Dem, has twice won in this district with a l-o-o-n-g history of electing Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you, dear reader, support artist resale royalties, please write your own Representatives and Senators. Our elected officials most easily grasp what matters to us when we tell them.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jozanne Rabyor on \u201cWho Will Fight for Artists\u2019 Rights in Congress?\u201d<\/p>\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\/06\/rodin.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tDid Auguste Rodin Steal From Camille Claudel?<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhat went so wrong that the brilliant sculptor\u2019s work became so little known? Simply put, she entered Rodin\u2019s studio. | Mary Sherman\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>Can artists counter-map the world? Today, Venezuelan writer Clara Maria Apostolatos explores how artists subvert the fraught practices of cartography from the inside out. As relief efforts following last week\u2019s deadly earthquakes lay bare the politics of intervention in Latin America, Apostolatos draws our attention to the quietly rebellious work of Venezuelan conceptual artist Claudio Perna, Chicano artist Sandy Rodriguez, and Dominican artist Firelei B\u00e1ez, who embrace maps as a way to destabilize the truths we think we know.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Upstate New York, artist Steel Stillman and many others mourn the closure of Nancy Shaver\u2019s beloved store, and Taliesin Thomas catches up with the artists who participated in Upstate Art Weekend \u2014 from an art show in a stable to a protest exhibition comprised entirely of chairs.<\/p>\n<p>Further down the river, New York City showed out for Pride as virulent legislation takes aim at trans and queer communities. Photographer Arielle Shannon captured some of the intimate, joyous moments at the sweltering parade through Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a new sculpture of soccer legend Lionel Messi has landed in Argentina. It\u2019s phallic, it\u2019s 85 feet tall, and, as Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar explains, it\u2019s the subject of some truly incredible memes. I\u2019ll let you see them for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor<\/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\/06\/maps.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe Artists Countermapping the World<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tMaps appear objective, yet they are built from choices that frame a particular view of the world. They are doubly instructional in the knowledge they share and in the ways they orient the viewer, offering a surface on which land appears ordered, bounded, and knowable. A run of recent exhibitions in New York of the works of late Venezuelan conceptual artist Claudio Perna, Chicano artist Sandy Rodriguez, and Dominican artist Firelei B\u00e1ez brings that charged surface into focus across generations of artists who take up cartography\u2019s capacity for orientation and put it to work otherwise: turning maps from tools of classification into frameworks for examining movement, memory, and power.  | Clara Maria Apostolatos\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/06\/zane-bennett-ad.jpg\" 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>Lucid Perturbations: The Sewn Drawings and Books of China Marks<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This exhibition at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art marks the first major solo exhibition of the artist\u2019s hypnagogic artworks.<\/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\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/lionel-messi-tweet.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The world&#8217;s tallest Lionel Messi statue was unveiled in the Patagonian town of Cutral C\u00f3. Featuring a crotch-level and rather phallic World Cup trophy, the sculpture immediately caused a stir online.<\/li>\n<li>A Texas\u00a0tattoo artist\u00a0has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving a box of political pamphlets and zines featuring \u201canti-government and anti-Trump sentiments,\u201d prompting outrage from First Amendment advocates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"photo-essay\">Photo Essay<\/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\/06\/pride-parade.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tSee Photos From a Sweltering, Joyous NYC Pride March<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tI joined more than 75,000 marchers and one million spectators on Sunday, June 28, to document the parade on Stonewall\u2019s 57th anniversary. | Arielle Shannon\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"upstate-new-york\">Upstate New York<\/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\/06\/upstate-art-weekend-feature.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAt Upstate Art Weekend, Cars and Barns Are Galleries<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tDuring the seventh annual event, hundreds of artists proved that art has never been confined to \u201cwhite cube\u201d galleries. | Taliesin Thomas\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tNancy Shaver\u2019s Beloved Store in Hudson to Close After 30 Years<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tFor many, Henry is a lot more than just another Upstate New York antiques shop. | Steel Stillman\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">You inspired me to write my own Congresswoman, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez from Washington&#8217;s Third, to educate her on this issue and ask her to support it. She&#8217;s VERY pro-worker, which is how she, a Dem, has twice won in this district with a l-o-o-n-g history of electing Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you, dear reader, support artist resale royalties, please write your own Representatives and Senators. Our elected officials most easily grasp what matters to us when we tell them.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jozanne Rabyor on \u201cWho Will Fight for Artists\u2019 Rights in Congress?\u201d<\/p>\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\/06\/rodin.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tDid Auguste Rodin Steal From Camille Claudel?<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhat went so wrong that the brilliant sculptor\u2019s work became so little known? Simply put, she entered Rodin\u2019s studio. | Mary Sherman\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\/06\/20251023_pdsoros_art_gallery-2.jpg\" alt=\"A $90,000 Graduate Fellowship for Immigrants &amp; Children of Immigrants in the Visual Arts\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">A $90,000 Graduate Fellowship for Immigrants &amp; Children of Immigrants in the Visual Arts<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">The Paul &amp; Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports immigrants &amp; children of immigrants in MFA, MA, PhD &amp; other graduate programs.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Paul &amp; Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans<\/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\/06\/2023_04-24_Rebirth-II-21.jpg\" alt=\"Pratt Manhattan Gallery Moves \u201cBeyond Digital\u201d in New Exhibition\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Pratt Manhattan Gallery Moves \u201cBeyond Digital\u201d in New Exhibition<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Exhibition of Pratt Digital Arts alumni explores technology, ecology, and emerging forms of intelligence.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Pratt Manhattan Gallery<\/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\/06\/Irene-Perez-by-PD-Rearick.jpg\" alt=\"Cranbrook Academy of Art Reopens Applications for Fall 2026\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Cranbrook Academy of Art Reopens Applications for Fall 2026<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">The art institution is accepting applications from June 22 through August 15 for artists and designers considering graduate study.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Cranbrook Academy of Art<\/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\/06\/CorcIXD-HCDClass-Output-4.JPG\" alt=\"How the GW Corcoran Is Rethinking Interaction Design Education\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">How the GW Corcoran Is Rethinking Interaction Design Education<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">The Interaction Design program at the George Washington University Corcoran School of Arts and Design is utilizing partnerships across DC to encourage its students to develop more inclusive design practices.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">George Washington University<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/if-artists-mapped-the-world\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Daily Newsletter If Artists Mapped the World Three shows unravel the politics of cartography. 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