Hank Willis Thomas

Plus, the Dalai Lama spreads the message of hope through art and MoMA director Glenn Lowry weighs in on the future of democracy.

( [Compact](https://compactmag.com/article/a-masturbatory-homage-to-my-family) and [ARTnews](https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hank-willis-thomas-pace-gallery-1234653756/)) [Artnet News](https://www.facebook.com/artnet)on Facebook: [Want to stay ahead of the art world? ( [The Art Newspaper](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/13/its-not-about-wokeness-its-about-doing-the-right-thingmoma-director-glenn-lowry-on-the-new-political-landscape)) [a turd](https://twitter.com/search?q=martin%20luther%20king%20turd&src=typed_query&f=top), or worse, [a phallus](https://twitter.com/search?q=martin%20luther%20king%20penis&src=typed_query&f=top). Dalai Lama Spreads the Message of Hope with Art – 2023 is a year of hope, according to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who launched the video work The Art of Hope with the Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts (CIRCA) on public screens in London, Melbourne, Berlin, and Los Angeles. The $2 million public art commission is a part of a $50 million park development. Hiroshi Sugimoto Monument to Be Unveiled in San Francisco – Point of Infinity, a towering 70-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture that looks like a needle, is expected to be unveiled in May at Yerba Buena Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island. One was donated by Altman Siegel gallery and Hershman Leeson to the museum for the 2022 Art Bash Auction, which was sold for $9,000 to an unnamed bidder. [podcast](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-january-12-2023-2241707) “The Art World: What If… Art Experts Try to Pick Out A.I.-Made Art From Masterpieces – Apparently, A.I.-generated art is now so sophisticated that it can even deceive the critical eyes of experts; even those like Bendor Grosvenor, art historian and presenter of the BBC’s Britain’s Lost Masterpieces, JJ Charlesworth, art critic and editor of ArtReview, and Pilar Ordovas, founder of the Mayfair gallery Ordovas. ( [ARTnews](https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/nfl-artist-lucinda-hinojos-2023-super-bowl-1234653722/)) Featuring the disembodied arms of the civil rights leader in an embrace with his wife, Coretta Scott King, a fair number of Twitter users—and at least one relative of the Kings’s—think it looks like