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Mom, I'm Gonna Be an Artist!

Hyperallergic·Hyperallergic·23 days ago
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After a lively art-world week humming with protests and resistance, from the Venice Biennale to the Met Gala to New York's American Folk Art Museum, we've made it to Saturday. Tomorrow, we celebrate the mothers in our lives, and to mark the occasion, Staff Writer Isa Farfan asked 15 artists to share the best advice they got from their moms or maternal figures. “My mother sagely advised that I would be appreciated in college, and she was right,” said Pat Oleszko, who “lost the class vice presidency to some dumb pretty chick” in high school. (Now, Oleszko's work is on view in the Whitney Biennial, so, yeah.) On the ground from Venice this week, our editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara weighed in on a drab US Pavilion and reported on a historic strike for Palestine and workers' rights, while Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian led us through stirring works on view at the Giardini and Arsenale for In Minor Keys , the Biennale's wondrous central exhibition.…

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