\nThe World Cup quarterfinals are upon us, and so is the ultimate crossover. Surrealism meets jersey design in an updated kit for the Belgian team with an homage to Ren\u00e9 Magritte\u2019s painting \u201cVoice of Space.\u201d The cherry on top is a cheeky \u201cCeci n’est pas une pipe\u201d reference \u2014 gives new meaning to o jogo bonito<\/em>, eh?<\/p>\nIn New York, the New Museum in Manhattan named Massimiliano Gioni as its next director, succeeding Lisa Phillips. Meanwhile, the state of Texas paved over the massive \u201cBlack Artists Matter\u201d street artwork in Austin, just over six years after it was painted, following an order from Republican Governor Greg Abbott.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Read on for John Giorno\u2019s fugitive poetry, John Constable\u2019s fascination with the seasons, and eight art books that reframe US history to read during the semiquincentennial. We also remember the life and legacy of Valerie Brathwaite, a Caracas-based artist who embodied the beauty of the natural world.<\/p>\n
\u2014Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\n\t\t\t8 Art Books to Reframe America\u2019s 250th \n\t\tThe Fourth of July fireworks and barbecues are behind us, but America 250 \u2014 and all its attendant propaganda \u2014 is still in full swing. Thankfully, artists, critics, curators, and museum professionals across the nation provide a deep well of books to make sense of this apocalyptic anniversary, using it as an opportunity to uncover ugly truths about United States history that the Trump administration and political right is doing its best to scrub from the record.\n <\/p>\n
\n Art reveals new ways of seeing \u2014 and we can always use more of them.\n\t<\/p>\n
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News<\/h2>\n\nOfficials in Austin destroyed a prominent street artwork displaying the message \u201cBlack Artists Matter\u201d last week following an order from Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott.<\/li>\n The pink-and-blue away jerseys of the Belgian men’s national soccer team feature one of Magritte’s lesser-known motifs, along with the phrase \u201cThis is not a jersey\u201d in an homage to the artist.<\/li>\n Valerie Brathwaite, the Trinidadian-born, Caracas-based artist whose undulating, organic sculptural forms reflected her love of the natural world, has died at age 87.<\/li>\n After a 10-month search, the New Museum in Manhattan announced today that its artistic director of 12 years, Massimiliano Gioni, has been appointed as its next director.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFrom Our Critics<\/h2>\n\n
\n\t\t\tJohn Constable\u2019s Four Seasons \n\t\tArt historian Susan Owens\u2019s exquisitely illustrated new book narrates the painter\u2019s story through his relationship to weather, place, and time. | Lauren Moya Ford\n\t<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tJohn Giorno Put Poetry on the Line \n\t\tIn iconic works like his \u201cDial-a-Poem,\u201d the artist offered a moment of sustained attention, a sense of relation, a novel perspective. | Tara Anne Dalbow\n\t<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tThis Is Not a Review of a Biography of Magritte In the graphic novel Magritte: This is Not a Biography<\/em>, characters from the Surrealist artist\u2019s paintings come to life. | Christine Ro\n\t<\/p>\n\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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