- The NAACP’s Rachel Dolezal may be meme-orialized for copying Tina Turner’s hairstyles, but she’s drawn inspiration from J.M.W. Turner as well. Her oil painting The Shape of Our Kind is remarkably similar to Turner’s [groan] The Slave Ship. I’m sure there’s a joke to be made about old white dudes dominating even this singularly bizarre, unfolding chapter of art history. [@jolieishere]
- Dolezal, who has an MFA from Howard University, actually works in a broad variety of media. Apparently those oil painting skills really do translate to being a better makeup artist. [Dolezal’s Portfolio]
- Europe has gained two new Rem-Koolhaas-designed contemporary art spaces. Both are funded by wealthy private backers and both are adaptive reuse projects. [The Guardian]
- How many windows does the the Hirschhorn Museum have? Is it correct to call the museum near windowless? Does it have four windows only or 331? Will somebody please call a fact checker in here to get this answer right. According to the Washington City Paper debate raged on this subject after New York TImes staffer Graham Bowle paraphrased Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chui in describing the museum as near windowless. But there’s a question of interior windows, of which there are many, (do they count if they are not exterior?) and whether a circle 96 panes should be considered a single window. I dunno the answer to this question, but if I were the Times I’d feel silly running a correction that said this building isn’t near windowless. Relatedly when I googled “Johnson house, glass house, windows” I got no results. Seems like once windows get really big people stop calling them windows. [Washington City Paper]
- Nek Chand, the self-taught artist who constructed Chandigarh’s Rock Garden, has died at age 90. [The New York Times]
- How a forgotten Harry Bertoia sculpture funded University of Virginia’s School of Architecture doctoral program. [The Washington Post]
- A Milwaukee artist who lives under the flightpath for that city’s airport painted “Welcome to Cleveland” on his roof. [GQ]
Monday Links: White on the Outside, Disputed on the Inside: Rachel Dolezal and the Hirshhorn Museum
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