Hockney's Posthumous Serpentine Show and Chinatown Museum Protest

Hyperallergic's newsletter leads with a critical review of David Hockney's posthumous exhibition at Serpentine Galleries, where a 295-foot iPad composite painting 'A Year in Normandie' (2020–21) encircles the gallery. Critic Olivia McEwan calls the iPad a 'fascistic form of mark-making,' preferring Hockney's physical paintings. The show, titled 'A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting,' features over 100 printed iPad works digitally stitched together. Hockney, who died last month at 88, had opposed the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry from France to the British Museum. In other news, New York Chinatown residents protested the Museum of Chinese in America's acceptance of a $35 million grant tied to a borough jail. Tate named Dia Art Foundation leader Jessica Morgan as its next director. Two painters are suing The Hole Gallery for $50,000 in unpaid sales. Collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein gifted over 70 works to the Zimmerli Art Museum. The newsletter also highlights an exhibition at David Nolan Gallery on Brazilian modernist Chico da Silva and Amazonian art, and an obituary section remembering Christine Borland, John Will, and Astrid Furnival.