You can usually find me underground for my Subway Hands projects. I ascended to document the NYC Pride and Queer Liberation marches — a study in contrasts.

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01.07.2025

Renée Stout’s Bewitching Circuitry

The magic of Stout’s artworks does not feel contingent on a viewer’s comprehension — it feels auratic, as if emitting an electrical current of meaning.

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01.07.2025

The Spiritual Modernism of Mestre Didi

The Brazilian artist and Candomblé priest established an international art practice that foregrounded diasporic African perspectives.

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01.07.2025

New York City’s Dyke March Mobilizes Against Fascism

In an organized response to ongoing violence, the 33rd annual event adopted an explicitly anti-war, anti-Trump, and anti-Zionist tone.

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01.07.2025

Tracing Queer History Through NYC’s Public Parks

The green spaces that served as a refuge for historically oppressed LGBTQ+ groups are at the center of contemporary campaigns to memorialize the movement.

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30.06.2025

Behind a Flight Attendant’s Painted-On Smile

Michelle Im’s disconcerting ceramic figures subvert ornamentalized representations of East Asian femininity.

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30.06.2025

As a Japanese American in LA, the ICE Raids Hit Home

I know what lasting trauma these violations cause as someone whose parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were unjustly incarcerated by the US government during World War II.

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30.06.2025

Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction

A fundamental part of Overstreet's mission was to break free of the flat, rectangular picture plane and the Eurocentric view of painting that dominated American art.

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28.06.2025

Lisa Yuskavage’s Genre-Defying Works on Paper Presented at the Morgan Library & Museum

The first comprehensive museum presentation of the artist’s drawings features over 40 works spanning her entire career.

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28.06.2025

Funding for MFA Students: The $90,000 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Immigrants and the children of immigrants pursuing MFAs and other graduate degrees can apply for up to $90,000 in funding.

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28.06.2025

Tourist Denied US Entry After ICE Found JD Vance Meme on His Phone

Mads Mikkelsen from Norway told Hyperallergic that he was mistreated by border agents and accused of possessing drug paraphernalia.

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28.06.2025

Anna Wintour to Remain Met Gala Chair

The news of her resignation as editor-in-chief of US Vogue has raised questions about her longtime tenure as chair of the annual museum benefit.

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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

The Met Finally Meets Asian Femininity on Its Own Terms

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

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.

Hyperallergic

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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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

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

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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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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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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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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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

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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Photographs Capture Two Very Different NYC Pride Celebrations

Renée Stout’s Bewitching Circuitry

The Spiritual Modernism of Mestre Didi

New York City’s Dyke March Mobilizes Against Fascism

Tracing Queer History Through NYC’s Public Parks

Behind a Flight Attendant’s Painted-On Smile

As a Japanese American in LA, the ICE Raids Hit Home

Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction

Lisa Yuskavage’s Genre-Defying Works on Paper Presented at the Morgan Library & Museum

Funding for MFA Students: The $90,000 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Tourist Denied US Entry After ICE Found JD Vance Meme on His Phone

Anna Wintour to Remain Met Gala Chair

How New York City Got Its First Pride March

A View From the Easel

The Met Finally Meets Asian Femininity on Its Own Terms

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

Required Reading

Mamdani Memes Remind Us Good Things Can Still Happen

As ICE Raids Stir Fear, My LA Neighborhood Perseveres

Remembering Arnaldo Pomodoro, Who Uncovered Worlds Within Sculptures

The Brief and Illustrious Life of the Telegraph

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

The Enduring Legacy of ’80s Harlem Drag Balls

This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum

Young Joon Kwak’s Luminescent Bodies

Lessons on Art and Community From America's Cultural Treasures

Barbara T. Smith’s Experiments in Xerox

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

Design Process in Practice at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

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

Love Pulses Through Elle Pérez’s Photography

Venice Climate Activists Have a Blunt Message for Jeff Bezos

A Massive Diane Arbus Exhibition Does So Little

Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art

New York’s Elizabeth Street Garden Saved From Demolition

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

San Francisco Art Book Fair Returns With More Programming Than Ever

The All-Over Art of Hamid Zénati

The Intense Intimacy of Caravaggio

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