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Bangladeshi collectors Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani—designees on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list—opened up their home to Robb Report to show some of their 2,000 works of modern and contemporary art. “You don’t want art to sit in a warehouse,” Nadia Samdani said. [Robb Report]
“Drive-By-Art (Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing)” has put a wide range of works on display on properties on Long Island—with another show like it in the works for L.A. [The New York Times]
Artist David Lynch resurrected his old daily weather-report series, with a video on the subject of Monday’s meteorological conditions posted to his new channel on YouTube. [Newsweek]
Art
See a sampling of photographer Justine Kurland’s series of pictures of “young girls roaming fearless and free”—some of them conjuring “the myth of the American west meets the energy of riot grrrl.” [The Guardian]
Net art got a survey in the Washington Post, with a special focus on Rafaël Rozendaal, Jodi, Olia Lialina, and Amalia Soto. [The Washington Post]
A show of centuries-old artworks from Japan make for good art in isolation: ‘“Painting Edo,” the ambitious jewel of an exhibition currently on view for no one at Harvard University, is perhaps arguably experiencing its most historically authentic moment in the strangeness of ours.” [The New York Review of Books]
Is Stacy Lazara the greatest sidewalk-chalk artist of all time? She and others are raising the bar for a new medium finding its form in elaborate works that will get washed away. [Entertainment Tonight]
Misc.
Artist Amadou Sanogo is planning to open a new arts center in the Malian capital of Bamako with studios for other artists and workshops for kids. [The Art Newspaper]
Miz Cracker paid a video visit to the home of artist and drag pioneer Tabboo! to “talk about Mark Morrisroe, Nan Goldin, and the origins of punk-rock drag.” [Artforum]
Agnes Varda, a French New Wave filmmaker who made a big impact in the art world before her death in 2019, is the subject of a big new box set being issued by the Criterion Collection this summer. [Criterion Collection]