“It feels like we are on this high-speed carousel, being flung in circles, moving from one tragedy to the next and we can’t quite grasp onto our seat before we are focused on the next group of people who are hurting and suffering,” Dominique Fung summarizes the perpetuating reality we’ve been experiencing, a realization that eventually led her towards co-curating a benefit auction Artists Against Anti-Asian Violence. Up on Artsy until June 30th, the project was realized in partnership with The Here & There Collective (THAT), and aside from raising funds for the two organizations working to secure a better future for the AAPI community, it aims to show solidarity against anti-Asian violence and xenophobia.
Natalia LL (1937–2022)
Polish Conceptual artist Natalia LL, whose pathbreaking works of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s critiqued consumerism, advertising, and the subjugating representation of women in pornography, died August 12