Hyperallergic Newsletter: Church Biography, Longaberger Myth, Kylie Jenner Mocked
The Hyperallergic newsletter features a review by Benjamin Moser of Victoria Johnson's new biography 'Glorious Country' (2026) on Frederic Edwin Church, the Hudson River School painter whose 1859 painting 'Heart of the Andes' drew over 12,000 visitors to New York's Tenth Street Studio Building. Poppy DeltaDawn examines the Longaberger Company's basket empire, arguing it commodified craft and promoted a mythologized settler-colonial heritage. News includes Everyone Hates Elon mocking Kylie Jenner's Meta glasses campaign with London bus ads over privacy concerns, and a Cape Town gallery accused of withholding payments and artworks. Community features an interview with painter Keltie Ferris in Woodstock, and obituaries for sculptor Bruno Lucchesi, cartoonist Pat Oliphant, and writer Edward Lucie-Smith. From the archive, Elaine Velie reports on a study linking 19th-century air pollution in London and Paris to Impressionism's blurred style.
Key facts
- Frederic Edwin Church's 'Heart of the Andes' drew over 12,000 visitors in 1859.
- Victoria Johnson's biography 'Glorious Country' on Church was published in 2026.
- Benjamin Moser reviewed the biography for Hyperallergic.
- Poppy DeltaDawn wrote about Longaberger's basket empire and its mythologized history.
- Activism group Everyone Hates Elon mocked Kylie Jenner's Meta glasses campaign.
- A Cape Town gallery faces allegations of withholding pay and artworks from artists.
- Keltie Ferris was interviewed in his Woodstock studio for 'Beer With a Painter'.
- Obituaries: Bruno Lucchesi, Pat Oliphant, Edward Lucie-Smith.
- A study suggests air pollution in 19th-century London and Paris influenced Impressionism.
- Elaine Velie reported on the air pollution-Impressionism study.
Entities
Artists
- Frederic Edwin Church
- Keltie Ferris
- Bruno Lucchesi
- Pat Oliphant
- Edward Lucie-Smith
- Kylie Jenner
- Nick Cave
- Bob Faust
- André De Shields
- Leo Herrera
- Jonathan Lethem
- Matthew Placek
Institutions
- Hyperallergic
- Tenth Street Studio Building
- Longaberger Company
- Everyone Hates Elon
- Meta
- Casa Magazines
- Different Leaf
Locations
- New York City
- United States
- London
- United Kingdom
- Cape Town
- South Africa
- Woodstock
- Paris
- France