Hyperallergic Newsletter: Dataland Review, Nayland Blake Interview, SAIC Controversy

Hyperallergic's newsletter leads with a review of Dataland, Los Angeles's new AI art museum founded by Refik Anadol, described by reporter Matt Stromberg as disorienting and nauseating. The issue also features an interview with artist Nayland Blake by Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang as part of a queer elders series, plus a list of seven art books for Pride Month. News items include the School of the Art Institute of Chicago placing professor Savneet Talwar on leave for assigning a case study on a hypothetical client affected by violence against Palestinian civilians; a child puncturing a René Magritte painting at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem with a pinecone; and a fire in Long Island City, Queens, destroying decades of work for two artists. A review of Danielle Mckinney's portraits of Black women at rest is also included.