Elias Sime is known worldwide for gargantuan abstractions comprising intricately arranged e-waste that he buys, often by the truckload, in Addis Ababa’s Mercato market—the largest open-air market in Africa. artnews.com/art-in-america…

“Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic” is a collection of essays by Larry Neal, a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70’s.

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For seven decades, Esther Mahlangu has painted vivid geometric forms and detailed patterns that draw from a long history of Ndebele mural painting, a technique passed between generations of women. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Ana Segovia is best known for his paintings that translate black-and-white film stills, both from Hollywood and Mexico’s Golden Ages, into canvases he describes as “poppy, kitschy, campy, bubblegum colors.” artnews.com/art-in-america…

North American Indigenous arts are expressions of deep cultural traditions as diverse as the lands with which they are inextricably linked. Christopher Green provides a crash course with five key texts that survey the subject. artnews.com/list/art-in-am…

Over the years, Joan Jonas’s commitment to cultural eclecticism has been premised on a sort of necessary tension, as well as a degree of distance and spontaneity. artnews.com/art-in-america…

“The act of painting is sensual,” explained Indigenous artist Kay WalkingStick in an interview with Alex Greenberger. “For me, if it’s not sensual, it’s not painting!” artnews.com/art-in-america…

“Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles,” at Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center, aims to reintroduce the artist, often overlooked throughout the Windy City’s history, to the metropolis where she played a vibrant if still unsung role. artnews.com/art-in-america…

In our latest “Reframed” newsletter, Maximilíano Durón reviews “The Juggler’s Revenge,” a Jean Cocteau retrospective at Venice’s Peggy Guggenheim Collection, which positions Cocteau as a brave forerunner for generations of queer artists who would follow. artnews.com/art-in-america…

On the performances of Carla Rossi, now selected as drag clown in residence for Jeffrey Gibson's American pavilion at the Venice Biennale, curator Kathleen Ash-Milby observed, “it’s refreshing that Rossi can bring these experiences to light through humor.” artnews.com/list/art-in-am…

Many of María Izquierdo’s subjects paralleled those of Frida Kahlo, and both artists helped strengthen the influence of Mexican popular arts. So why is María not as familiar as Frida? artnews.com/art-in-america…

Multidisciplinary creator Miranda July discusses self-expression and creative collaboration, along with her top five obsessions. artnews.com/list/art-in-am…

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As Surrealism celebrates its 100th anniversary, Ara H. Merjian reviews eight books that make the history, reach, and lasting impact of this movement abundantly clear. artnews.com/list/art-in-am…

Emmanuel Iduma writes a diary from Lagos, describing the megalopolis’s growing art scene. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Pierre Huyghe’s “work careens between cybernetics, neuroscience, sci-fi, philosophy, and fantasy, at its best making the complex issues involved in all of them engagingly intelligible,” writes Eleanor Heartney. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Polymathic Chicago artist Theaster Gates has worked in most media, and a show at the Mori Art Museum stands to be his biggest yet in Japan.

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What are the stakes of being visible? Singaporean photographer and filmmaker Charmaine Poh—a former child star—confronts the trade-offs between visibility and protection. artnews.com/art-in-america…

A downtrodden former gallerist asks if it’s too late to get any farewell press coverage after shutting down the gallery he called home for years. Art-world advice columnists Chen & Lampert answer with some ‘Hard Truths.’ artnews.com/art-in-america…

The influential, but notoriously hard to find, 1974 MoMA conference “Open Circuits” is now back in print, with new essays, under the name “The New Television.”

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