Trump Adds His Face to the U.S. Passport

The Trump administration announced this week that it plans to issue passports prominently displaying the president’s portrait and signature --- the so-called “Land of the Free” has chosen to brand its passport with the very symbol of violently enforced borders. 

Special-edition US passport will feature Trump's likeness and signature. (courtesy US State Departm

 

 

News

Howardena Pindell, “Untitled #123” (2024) (courtesy Sotheby’s)

• The Yale School of Art is partnering with Sotheby’s to host an auction benefiting scholarships for students in its Master of Fine Arts program, a collaboration that speaks to larger questions of affordability in higher arts education. 
• George Herms, one of the founders of the West Coast Assemblage movement, dies at age 90. 

Art Review

José Gamarra, “L’inaccessible...” (1986–87) (photo courtesy Mémorial ACTe, fonds Région Guadeloupe)

Édouard Glissant’s Museum-as-Archipelago

An exhibition of his collection finds provisional alliances between artists, rather than reiterating established hierarchies. | John Yau

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Community

Late photographer Raghu Rai (photo Raajessh Kashyap/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Remembering Raghu Rai, Jack Thornell, and Jarvis Rockwell

This week, we honor India’s most celebrated photojournalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, and a multi-media artist.

Member Comment

Holly Wong on Aaron Short's “Joan Semmel Is Doing Her Best Work at 93”

This article gives me so much hope. It proves that you can have a singular vision, go against the grain of art world trends and build a life of meaning and purpose. I am so grateful that Joan has begun to be recognized in significant ways but this late career recognition doesn't define what she has already achieved, which is to courageously have a voice when no one else is listening.

From the Archive

The Archipelago Conversations by Édouard Glissant with Hans Ulrich Obrist (courtesy Isolarii)

Édouard Glissant Sought to Undermine the European Ideological Underpinnings of Colonization

In conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Glissant proposed an Art Museum of the Americas. | David Brazil