Dayanita Singh Mounts Show at Venice State Archives Without Funding

Artist Dayanita Singh opened a show at the State Archives of Venice, marking the first time the venue has been used for public exhibitions. Singh mounted her 'photo-pillars' without institutional funding, relying instead on a 'friendship economy.' The exhibition features images of Indian archival documents bound in red cloth. Hyperallergic Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian interviewed Singh about the project. Separately, the newsletter highlights rare early Basquiat works returning to Brooklyn for the exhibition 'Our Friend, Jean,' Trump's $7.5 million plan to whitewash the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, and an archaeological discovery of a papyrus with lines from Homer's Iliad buried with mummified remains in Oxyrhynchus. Also featured are Maia Chao's performance at the Whitney Museum, a 'Beer With a Painter' interview with Keith Mayerson, and an archival piece on Tamara de Lempicka.