After an exploitative 2015 show, I was wary about being an academic “beard” for another exhibition in the guise of “revision.” Monstrous Beauty is a different beast.

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27.06.2025

Required Reading

This week: the Black Arts Movement’s radical aesthetics, Gatsby boat tours, advice columns, Hot Girls for Zohran, Gen Z dumps glitter on ICE, and much more.

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27.06.2025

How New York City Got Its First Pride March

What started as a response to the 1969 Stonewall Uprising has evolved and expanded, taking on an added urgency amid Trump’s ongoing attacks on LGBTQ+ people.

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27.06.2025

A View From the Easel

“Sometimes, I need to live with a piece to fall in love with it and get rid of any doubt that brews, a struggle many artists know well.”

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27.06.2025

Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer of Lived Experience, Dies at 95

Her unflinching gaze, which garnered both criticism and praise, confronted some of the most momentous and often painful chapters in global human history.

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26.06.2025

Remembering Arnaldo Pomodoro, Who Uncovered Worlds Within Sculptures

The artist and my dear friend, who died this week just before his 99th birthday, was always curious, always carving away at a shiny surface.

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26.06.2025

Mamdani Memes Remind Us Good Things Can Still Happen

New Yorkers are celebrating the mayoral candidate's establishment defeat and using humor to subvert racist commentary.

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26.06.2025

As ICE Raids Stir Fear, My LA Neighborhood Perseveres

In my home in Downtown LA, I see artists and activists continuing to rise up.

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26.06.2025

Wayne Thiebaud’s Art Is More Than a Piece of Cake

A lot of the enjoyment of Thiebaud’s retrospective is spotting the Easter eggs of earlier art, whether overt, covert, or something more subtle.

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26.06.2025

The Brief and Illustrious Life of the Telegraph

Time Machines reveals entanglements between the largely forgotten optical telegraph and artistic movements in 19th-century France.

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25.06.2025

Lessons on Art and Community From America's Cultural Treasures

These institutions shrink the space between art and life by serving as places where entire communities can cohere through storytelling.

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25.06.2025

The Enduring Legacy of ’80s Harlem Drag Balls

More than three decades since Paris Is Burning put the underground scene on a world stage, ball culture remains a haven for the queer community.

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25.06.2025

This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum

It’s a story about power, leverage, and fear during the first Trump administration, and also about the potential for solidarity and love in the second.

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25.06.2025

Stunning Photos of the Cosmos From the World’s Largest Digital Camera

The Vera Rubin Observatory shared the first images taken with the technology, hailed as a transformative breakthrough in astronomical research.

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25.06.2025

Young Joon Kwak’s Luminescent Bodies

The artist’s magnificent, rhinestone-encrusted cast sculptures tell multiple stories that look at contemporary queer and trans existence.

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25.06.2025

New Project Will Map Fire-Ravaged Altadena’s Cultural Heritage

LA’s Getty Foundation is funding the documentation of the historic neighborhood as developers rush to buy up burned lots.

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25.06.2025

Barbara T. Smith’s Experiments in Xerox

Years before her feminist performance art, she channeled her feelings through a copy machine.

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25.06.2025

Design Process in Practice at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

A new exhibition unveils the creative journeys of Pratt Institute’s Communications Design alumni. On view June 27–September 6.

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24.06.2025

New York’s Elizabeth Street Garden Saved From Demolition

After fighting for years against a proposal to flatten the garden to build affordable housing, advocates welcome a new deal with the city that spares the beloved green space.

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24.06.2025

Venice Climate Activists Have a Blunt Message for Jeff Bezos

A massive banner unfurled by Greenpeace takes aim at the Amazon billionaire’s lavish wedding plans in the historic city.

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24.06.2025

Visitor Tears Hole in 17th-Century Painting at Uffizi Galleries

A man damaged the portrait of Fernando de’ Medici while posing for a picture in the latest instance of a museum selfie gone wrong.

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24.06.2025

Love Pulses Through Elle Pérez’s Photography

Pérez’s impulse as a photographer is to hold a feeling still — which is, really, a means of honoring the living, witnessing them.

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24.06.2025

Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art

The artist’s Twice Seen explores visibility and perception, challenging us to refuse to turn one another into novelties.

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24.06.2025

Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

From Glenn Ligon’s critique of society’s ills to Diane Arbus’s complicity in them, the solo shows below provide plenty of food for thought.

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24.06.2025

San Francisco Art Book Fair Returns With More Programming Than Ever

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF25 spans two city blocks and welcomes more than 150 exhibitors from around the world this July.

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24.06.2025

A Massive Diane Arbus Exhibition Does So Little

Questionable curatorial choices seem intended to prevent critical discussion in a major survey at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory.

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23.06.2025

The Intense Intimacy of Caravaggio

He seems to speak to us directly and clearly, given his love of striking light and shadow. We experience him personally.

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23.06.2025

The All-Over Art of Hamid Zénati

A new retrospective of Hamid Zénati is also an important record of an interconnected North African modernism.

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23.06.2025

When NYC’s Piers Were a Sanctuary for Gay Gathering

In the 1960s, amid the shipping industry's decline, the empty piers became a site for cruising and creativity for gay men in particular.

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21.06.2025

Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art

Not content to help disintegrate democracy here at home, the cheugy shit-poster is seeking to create a new low cultural watermark in a city known for its rising tides.

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21.06.2025

Ringling Museum Will Stay Under Florida State University, for Now

Florida lawmakers dropped Republican Governor Ron DeSantis's highly contested proposal to transfer control of the institution to the New College of Florida.

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21.06.2025

Climate Activists Splash Paint on a Picasso in Montreal

"There are more than 200 wildfires in Canada at the moment," said a protester as he threw washable pink paint on the glass-protected portrait.

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20.06.2025

An LA Show Breathes New Life Into Fire-Damaged Art

“Burn Me!” at The Box examines how fire has shaped art and life west of the San Bernardino Mountains — in the last six months and far earlier.

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20.06.2025

Alice Austen’s Pioneering Lesbian Gaze

Her intimate photographs of women include humor and playfulness, and speak to her closeness to her subjects.

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20.06.2025

Required Reading

This week: when Toni Morrison edited Barbara Chase-Riboud, trans women artists in Mexico, Jane Austen paraphernalia, a pigeon pageant on the High Line, and much more.

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20.06.2025

Scientists Recreate Ancient Egypt’s Prized Blue Pigment

The researchers shared their surprising findings in a new study that highlights the importance of using science to examine art and antiquity.

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20.06.2025

A View From the Easel

“I can paint in my pajamas and at any time of day.”

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19.06.2025

11 Juneteenth Events Around New York City

Workshops inspired by contemporary artists, performances, comedy, food, screenings, and so much more.

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19.06.2025

For Glenn Ligon, Language Is Material

An exhibition of Ligon’s well-known works at the Brant Foundation shows how language fails us and confronts us with silence.

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19.06.2025

30 NYC Monuments of Black Americans You Should Know

From Harriet Tubman to Duke Ellington, the city boasts a wealth of public art honoring Black individuals, the subject of a timely new book.

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The Met Finally Meets Asian Femininity on Its Own Terms

Required Reading

How New York City Got Its First Pride March

A View From the Easel

Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer of Lived Experience, Dies at 95

Remembering Arnaldo Pomodoro, Who Uncovered Worlds Within Sculptures

Mamdani Memes Remind Us Good Things Can Still Happen

As ICE Raids Stir Fear, My LA Neighborhood Perseveres

Wayne Thiebaud’s Art Is More Than a Piece of Cake

The Brief and Illustrious Life of the Telegraph

Lessons on Art and Community From America's Cultural Treasures

The Enduring Legacy of ’80s Harlem Drag Balls

This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum

Stunning Photos of the Cosmos From the World’s Largest Digital Camera

Young Joon Kwak’s Luminescent Bodies

New Project Will Map Fire-Ravaged Altadena’s Cultural Heritage

Barbara T. Smith’s Experiments in Xerox

Design Process in Practice at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

New York’s Elizabeth Street Garden Saved From Demolition

Venice Climate Activists Have a Blunt Message for Jeff Bezos

Visitor Tears Hole in 17th-Century Painting at Uffizi Galleries

Love Pulses Through Elle Pérez’s Photography

Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art

Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

San Francisco Art Book Fair Returns With More Programming Than Ever

A Massive Diane Arbus Exhibition Does So Little

The Intense Intimacy of Caravaggio

The All-Over Art of Hamid Zénati

When NYC’s Piers Were a Sanctuary for Gay Gathering

Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art

Ringling Museum Will Stay Under Florida State University, for Now

Climate Activists Splash Paint on a Picasso in Montreal

An LA Show Breathes New Life Into Fire-Damaged Art

Alice Austen’s Pioneering Lesbian Gaze

Required Reading

Scientists Recreate Ancient Egypt’s Prized Blue Pigment

A View From the Easel

11 Juneteenth Events Around New York City

For Glenn Ligon, Language Is Material

30 NYC Monuments of Black Americans You Should Know

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