{"id":2034590,"date":"2026-07-09T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2034590"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:00:41","slug":"with-a-little-help-from-my-art-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2034590","title":{"rendered":"With a Little Help From My Art Friends"},"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\">With a Little Help From My Art Friends<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Gertrude Abercrombie\u2019s crew of Magic Realists, the artist selling trash from outside Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding, and the truth about stock photography.<\/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=\"2026-07-09\">July 9, 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 an art world that often attributes success to individual genius, the story of Gertrude Abercrombie \u2014 the Midwestern Surrealist whose intricately rendered, enigmatic canvases have us all transfixed \u2014 is anything but that. A pair of exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum shines a light on her motley crew of &#8220;Magic Realists,\u201d among them John Wilde, Marshall Glasier, and other artists who imbued mid-20th-century American painting with a sense of the uncanny. In critic Debra Brehmer\u2019s words, they prove that \u201cno art movement and few artists exist without the bonds of friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plus: An ovulation test kit, a left AirPod, and lots of cigarette butts can all be yours if you purchase one of artist Justin Gignac\u2019s trash souvenirs scavenged from outside Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding at Madison Square Garden. Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar gets an interview with this visionary curator of the discarded. (Maurizio Cattelan, take note.) <\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Valentina Di Liscia, senior 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\/07\/magic-realists.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tGertrude Abercrombie\u2019s Band of Midwest Magic Realists<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t In the 1940s, a small band of Midwest artists dubbed the \u201cMagic Realists\u201d began making work that tapped into the freedoms of Surrealism without being swayed by stylistic tendencies. They took their own path, achieving recognition during their heyday, but drew scant attention from the larger art world in later years. In the last decade, two exhibitions have generated renewed interest: a 2018 show of one of the six primary members, Gertrude Abercrombie, at Karma Gallery in New York, and a recent retrospective of the artist that traveled from the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh to the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, and is currently on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum.\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        The Milwaukee iteration has commendably added a small parallel exhibition, Gertrude and Friends: The Wisconsin Magic Realists. The exhibition underscores the mutual support, comradeship, and spirit of rebellion shared by this cohort and other less-involved colleagues, presenting Abercrombie not as an isolated maker, but as part of a protective and inspirational community.\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\/07\/gw-corcoran.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>How the GW Corcoran Is Rethinking Interaction Design Education<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>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.<\/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\/07\/jonathan-allen.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Messages condemning Israel\u2019s violence in Gaza appeared over the advertising screens outside the Whitney Museum of American Art last week in an action by New York City-based artist Jonathan Allen.<\/li>\n<li>Following Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s wedding at Madison Square Garden last week, artist Justin Gignac collected street trash found outside the venue and is selling them in pocket-sized vitrine boxes as souvenirs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"book-review\">Book Review<\/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\/07\/stock-photography.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe Hidden History of Stock Photography<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tIn her first book, scholar Simona Supekar mines the history of stock imagery as a vessel for racism and sexism and considers its role in the age of AI. | Eileen G\u2019Sell\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\/07\/Yervant-Gianikian.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tRemembering Yervant Gianikian, Valerie Brathwaite, and Jerry Moriarty<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThis week, we honor a giant of 20th-century cinema, a sculptor of the natural world, and a self-described \u201cpaintoonist.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/07\/eyebrows-in-art.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA Brief History of Women\u2019s Eyebrows in Art<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tSince antiquity, women\u2019s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles. | Isabella Segalovich\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\">With a Little Help From My Art Friends<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Gertrude Abercrombie\u2019s crew of Magic Realists, the artist selling trash from outside Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding, and the truth about stock photography.<\/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=\"2026-07-09\">July 9, 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 an art world that often attributes success to individual genius, the story of Gertrude Abercrombie \u2014 the Midwestern Surrealist whose intricately rendered, enigmatic canvases have us all transfixed \u2014 is anything but that. A pair of exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum shines a light on her motley crew of &#8220;Magic Realists,\u201d among them John Wilde, Marshall Glasier, and other artists who imbued mid-20th-century American painting with a sense of the uncanny. In critic Debra Brehmer\u2019s words, they prove that \u201cno art movement and few artists exist without the bonds of friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plus: An ovulation test kit, a left AirPod, and lots of cigarette butts can all be yours if you purchase one of artist Justin Gignac\u2019s trash souvenirs scavenged from outside Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding at Madison Square Garden. Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar gets an interview with this visionary curator of the discarded. (Maurizio Cattelan, take note.) <\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Valentina Di Liscia, senior 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\/07\/magic-realists.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tGertrude Abercrombie\u2019s Band of Midwest Magic Realists<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t In the 1940s, a small band of Midwest artists dubbed the \u201cMagic Realists\u201d began making work that tapped into the freedoms of Surrealism without being swayed by stylistic tendencies. They took their own path, achieving recognition during their heyday, but drew scant attention from the larger art world in later years. In the last decade, two exhibitions have generated renewed interest: a 2018 show of one of the six primary members, Gertrude Abercrombie, at Karma Gallery in New York, and a recent retrospective of the artist that traveled from the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh to the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, and is currently on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum.\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        The Milwaukee iteration has commendably added a small parallel exhibition, Gertrude and Friends: The Wisconsin Magic Realists. The exhibition underscores the mutual support, comradeship, and spirit of rebellion shared by this cohort and other less-involved colleagues, presenting Abercrombie not as an isolated maker, but as part of a protective and inspirational community.\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\/07\/gw-corcoran.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>How the GW Corcoran Is Rethinking Interaction Design Education<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>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.<\/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\/07\/jonathan-allen.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Messages condemning Israel\u2019s violence in Gaza appeared over the advertising screens outside the Whitney Museum of American Art last week in an action by New York City-based artist Jonathan Allen.<\/li>\n<li>Following Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s wedding at Madison Square Garden last week, artist Justin Gignac collected street trash found outside the venue and is selling them in pocket-sized vitrine boxes as souvenirs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"book-review\">Book Review<\/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\/07\/stock-photography.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe Hidden History of Stock Photography<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tIn her first book, scholar Simona Supekar mines the history of stock imagery as a vessel for racism and sexism and considers its role in the age of AI. | Eileen G\u2019Sell\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\/07\/Yervant-Gianikian.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tRemembering Yervant Gianikian, Valerie Brathwaite, and Jerry Moriarty<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThis week, we honor a giant of 20th-century cinema, a sculptor of the natural world, and a self-described \u201cpaintoonist.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/07\/eyebrows-in-art.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA Brief History of Women\u2019s Eyebrows in Art<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tSince antiquity, women\u2019s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles. | Isabella Segalovich\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 an art world that often attributes success to individual genius, the story of Gertrude Abercrombie \u2014 the Midwestern Surrealist whose intricately rendered, enigmatic canvases have us all transfixed \u2014 is anything but that. A pair of exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum shines a light on her motley crew of &#8220;Magic Realists,\u201d among them John Wilde, Marshall Glasier, and other artists who imbued mid-20th-century American painting with a sense of the uncanny. In critic Debra Brehmer\u2019s words, they prove that \u201cno art movement and few artists exist without the bonds of friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plus: An ovulation test kit, a left AirPod, and lots of cigarette butts can all be yours if you purchase one of artist Justin Gignac\u2019s trash souvenirs scavenged from outside Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding at Madison Square Garden. Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar gets an interview with this visionary curator of the discarded. (Maurizio Cattelan, take note.) <\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Valentina Di Liscia, senior 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\/07\/magic-realists.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tGertrude Abercrombie\u2019s Band of Midwest Magic Realists<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t In the 1940s, a small band of Midwest artists dubbed the \u201cMagic Realists\u201d began making work that tapped into the freedoms of Surrealism without being swayed by stylistic tendencies. They took their own path, achieving recognition during their heyday, but drew scant attention from the larger art world in later years. In the last decade, two exhibitions have generated renewed interest: a 2018 show of one of the six primary members, Gertrude Abercrombie, at Karma Gallery in New York, and a recent retrospective of the artist that traveled from the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh to the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, and is currently on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum.\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        The Milwaukee iteration has commendably added a small parallel exhibition, Gertrude and Friends: The Wisconsin Magic Realists. The exhibition underscores the mutual support, comradeship, and spirit of rebellion shared by this cohort and other less-involved colleagues, presenting Abercrombie not as an isolated maker, but as part of a protective and inspirational community.\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\/07\/gw-corcoran.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>How the GW Corcoran Is Rethinking Interaction Design Education<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>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.<\/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\/07\/jonathan-allen.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Messages condemning Israel\u2019s violence in Gaza appeared over the advertising screens outside the Whitney Museum of American Art last week in an action by New York City-based artist Jonathan Allen.<\/li>\n<li>Following Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s wedding at Madison Square Garden last week, artist Justin Gignac collected street trash found outside the venue and is selling them in pocket-sized vitrine boxes as souvenirs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"book-review\">Book Review<\/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\/07\/stock-photography.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe Hidden History of Stock Photography<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tIn her first book, scholar Simona Supekar mines the history of stock imagery as a vessel for racism and sexism and considers its role in the age of AI. | Eileen G\u2019Sell\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\/07\/Yervant-Gianikian.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tRemembering Yervant Gianikian, Valerie Brathwaite, and Jerry Moriarty<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThis week, we honor a giant of 20th-century cinema, a sculptor of the natural world, and a self-described \u201cpaintoonist.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/07\/eyebrows-in-art.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA Brief History of Women\u2019s Eyebrows in Art<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tSince antiquity, women\u2019s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles. | Isabella Segalovich\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\/The2025SFArtBookFair_photobyLizzyMyers.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Art Book Fair Celebrates 10 Years\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">San Francisco Art Book Fair Celebrates 10 Years<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF returns this July, welcoming 160 independent publishers from around the world. <\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">San Francisco Art Book Fair<\/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\/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\" 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