Nestled between brownstones near Prospect Park, the Lesbian Herstory Archives houses the world’s largest selection of materials by and for anyone who identifies with the word.

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02.06.2025

The Self-Fashioning of the Black Dandy

The Met’s exhibition expands Black fashion history by centering ordinary individuals and their dress practices.

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02.06.2025

Tony Tasset Exposes the World’s Frayed Canvas

I wanted to hate these artworks, then I wished to poke my finger through their holes, and finally they became a perfect aestheticization of the contemporary moment.

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02.06.2025

NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Unveils Arts Platform

The city comptroller’s eight-page culture plan includes a program for doctors to “prescribe” art and the creation of a deputy mayor position for the sector.

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02.06.2025

8 Art Books to Read This Pride Month

Dig into new and upcoming tomes on the long lineage of LGBTQ+ art, from Beauford Delaney’s bond with James Baldwin to iconic lesbian photographer JEB and Alice Austen.

Hyperallergic

31.05.2025

Joiri Minaya Upends the Allure of Exoticization

The artist’s performance reflects the evolution of its garden site from starkly colonial origins to a different type of cultural cross-pollination.

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31.05.2025

Trump Says He Fired National Portrait Gallery Director Over DEI Support

Kim Sajet had been in the role since 2013, when she was appointed by President Obama to lead the Smithsonian institution.

Hyperallergic

30.05.2025

A New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of “Nope”

The anonymous artist’s latest may have a personal touch, but it’s still another installment in what feels like a series of works stifled by surveillance and media fatigue.

Hyperallergic

30.05.2025

A View From the Easel

“When the spirit moves me and the work goes well, I dance.”

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30.05.2025

Wen-Jen Deng: The Embedded Stitch

Contemporary Fiber Art from Taiwan

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30.05.2025

How to Get a Read on Rashid Johnson

There is much reading going on in “A Poem for Deep Thinkers” at the Guggenheim, but I wonder where the apprehended knowledge shows up.

Hyperallergic

30.05.2025

Plásmata 3: We’ve met before, haven’t we?

Onassis Stegi presents an immersive open-air biennale in Athens featuring visual art, music, cinema, performances, and more.

Hyperallergic

30.05.2025

Required Reading

This week: archiving BLM protest art, Walt Whitman selfies, the legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, being Black at art school, hummingbird evolution, and much more.

Hyperallergic

30.05.2025

Tamara Lanier on Her Historic Victory Against Harvard University

In the aftermath of the school’s agreement to relinquish the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors, Lanier spoke to Hyperallergic about her protracted battle for justice and a new home for the photographs.

Hyperallergic

29.05.2025

“Mother Pigeon,” the Artist Fighting to Save NYC’s Urban Birds

Tina Piña Trachtenburg is set on finding the culprits behind a recent surge in pigeon disappearances throughout the city.

Hyperallergic

29.05.2025

Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement

Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019 over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors held in its museum, called the outcome “a turning point in American history.”

Hyperallergic

29.05.2025

TERRA: Bodies & Territories Activates Land as Living Laboratory and Stage

This work of experimental dance theater at Philadelphia’s Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education is performed by a multi-generational ensemble of women and femme dancers.

Hyperallergic

29.05.2025

Lotus L. Kang’s Hopeful Doom Scrolling

The artist challenges the expectation that continual creation and a predetermined morbid fate are contradictory.

Hyperallergic

29.05.2025

Jewelry Deserves a Place in Art History

“Beyond Adornment” explores what the depiction of jewelry in art says about adornment, artists, and their subjects, from Charlemagne to Frida Kahlo.

Hyperallergic

29.05.2025

Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81

Spurred on by a desire to document his encounters and surroundings, the Brazilian photographer captured the realities of marginalized people around the world.

Hyperallergic

29.05.2025

The Private Calligraphy of Henri Michaux

The poet turned to psychedelics to discover the nature of his own consciousness, producing inscrutable drawings that alternately vibrate until they blur, or wash gently to and fro.

Hyperallergic

28.05.2025

Lil Nas X Did Not Steal a Photographer's Poses, Court Rules

The decision concludes a year-long battle led by photographer Rodney Woodland, who accused the rapper of copyright infringement.

Hyperallergic

28.05.2025

New York City Shows to See Right Now

Repurposed objects by Kiah Celeste and Yuji Agematsu and re-imagined architecture by feminist architect Phyllis Birkby are among our favorite artworks this week.

Hyperallergic

28.05.2025

Kiah Celeste Coaxes Life From Objects

Her gorgeous, tactile sculptures are not just symbolic of human lives, but reflections of embodiment in all of its fragility and resilience.

Hyperallergic

28.05.2025

Protest Targets Whitney Museum Board Ties After Canceled Performance

A group of protesters staged a demonstration in the lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art last Friday evening, May 23, targeting board members “tied

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28.05.2025

Queer Artists Make Fantasy Architecture a Reality

Phyllis Birkby harnessed her knowledge and lesbian feminist politics to encourage countless people to reimagine their built environments.

Hyperallergic

28.05.2025

The 2026 Venice Biennale Wants to Cut Through the Noise

The late curator Koyo Kouoh envisioned an exhibition that would “shift to a slower gear and tune in to the frequencies of the minor keys.”

Hyperallergic

27.05.2025

Foundations and Donors Step in to Fill the Federal Art Funding Gap

Amid the cancellation of millions in government grants by the Trump administration, a wave of new relief programs and fundraisers leaves room for hope.

Hyperallergic

27.05.2025

The Diné Weaver Who Turns Microchips Into Art

Marilou Schultz, a math teacher and fourth-generation weaver, pushes the boundaries of the art form by combining technological aesthetics and Diné techniques.

Hyperallergic

27.05.2025

Why Are We Still Obsessed With Pompeii?

In “The Buried City,” the director of the archaeological park brings a more humane and soulful version of the site to life.

Hyperallergic

27.05.2025

High School Teacher Reprimanded for Showing Jewish Dissent Poster

Evanston teacher Andrew Ginsberg, who is Jewish, was asked to take down a print referencing Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s 1971 anti-war essay.

Hyperallergic

27.05.2025

How the Motorcar Helped Fuel Feminism

A show demonstrates how the motor vehicle drove aesthetics, fashion, and feminism in interwar France.

Hyperallergic

26.05.2025

Xingzi Gu Shows the Vulnerability of Youth

The androgynous adolescents in Gu’s paintings are people who have interior lives but are not always sure which way to go.

Hyperallergic

26.05.2025

Why Did Pope Leo XIV Invoke Van Gogh in His First Address?

“It seems to me an image of hope,” said the new pontiff in an inaugural address attended by around 40,000 people.

Hyperallergic

24.05.2025

Does the Art World Need a New Art Fair in Qatar?

As Art Basel opens its arms to new collectors in Doha, some critics will not look past the nation’s legacy of deadly conditions for migrant laborers.

Hyperallergic

24.05.2025

The Hunter MFA Show Is One of the Best Shows of the Year

Across painting, sculpture, installation, and video, these five group shows are excellent — no qualifiers about “student work” needed.

Hyperallergic

23.05.2025

East West Players Brings Asian-American Stories Into the Limelight

The Los Angeles theater, now in its 60th year, works to cultivate, invite, and produce authentic stories told from within the AAPI communities.

Hyperallergic

23.05.2025

Rhode Island School of Design Presents Grad Show 2025

Graduate student work representing 19 disciplines is featured in this exhibition at the Rhode Island Convention Center and its accompanying digital publication.

Hyperallergic

23.05.2025

Required Reading

This week: Mona Chalabi on animating hijabis, the history of screensavers, Mexican activists fight big tech, the flip phone revolution, Pedro Pascal cookies, and much more.

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23.05.2025

A View From the Easel

“Central heating would be nice.”

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An Archive of Lesbian History Right in the Heart of Brooklyn

The Self-Fashioning of the Black Dandy

Tony Tasset Exposes the World’s Frayed Canvas

NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Unveils Arts Platform

8 Art Books to Read This Pride Month

Joiri Minaya Upends the Allure of Exoticization

Trump Says He Fired National Portrait Gallery Director Over DEI Support

A New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of “Nope”

A View From the Easel

Wen-Jen Deng: The Embedded Stitch

How to Get a Read on Rashid Johnson

Plásmata 3: We’ve met before, haven’t we?

Required Reading

Tamara Lanier on Her Historic Victory Against Harvard University

“Mother Pigeon,” the Artist Fighting to Save NYC’s Urban Birds

Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement

TERRA: Bodies & Territories Activates Land as Living Laboratory and Stage

Lotus L. Kang’s Hopeful Doom Scrolling

Jewelry Deserves a Place in Art History

Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81

The Private Calligraphy of Henri Michaux

Lil Nas X Did Not Steal a Photographer's Poses, Court Rules

New York City Shows to See Right Now

Kiah Celeste Coaxes Life From Objects

Protest Targets Whitney Museum Board Ties After Canceled Performance

Queer Artists Make Fantasy Architecture a Reality

The 2026 Venice Biennale Wants to Cut Through the Noise

Foundations and Donors Step in to Fill the Federal Art Funding Gap

The Diné Weaver Who Turns Microchips Into Art

Why Are We Still Obsessed With Pompeii?

High School Teacher Reprimanded for Showing Jewish Dissent Poster

How the Motorcar Helped Fuel Feminism

Xingzi Gu Shows the Vulnerability of Youth

Why Did Pope Leo XIV Invoke Van Gogh in His First Address?

Does the Art World Need a New Art Fair in Qatar?

The Hunter MFA Show Is One of the Best Shows of the Year

East West Players Brings Asian-American Stories Into the Limelight

Rhode Island School of Design Presents Grad Show 2025

Required Reading

A View From the Easel

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