Feature
From a Soho Loft to the World’s First LGBTQ+ Art Museum
In the face of discrimination, harassment, and the AIDS crisis, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art became a beacon for queer creativity.
Rhea Nayyar
Rhea Nayyar (she/her) is a New York City-based staff reporter at Hyperallergic. She received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has a passion for small-scale artworks, elevating minority perspectives, and dogspotting at art world events.
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San Francisco Art Institute Becomes Free Experimental Studio Program
The new California Academy of Studio Arts will host up to 30 emerging artists per annual cohort.
News
Artist Covers Transphobic Billboard With Giant Dachshund Drawing
Street artist Yaya decided to counter the UK ad campaign’s bigoted message with “something absurd that couldn’t offend anyone.”
News
Museum Displays 200-Year-Old Condom Printed With Erotic Image
The 19th-century prophylactic, depicting an exposed nun and three aroused clergymen, anchors an exhibit about sex work and health at the Rijksmuseum.
News
Whitney Museum Suspends Independent Study Program
The museum is pausing the 2025–26 iteration of the program just weeks after it canceled a performance about Palestinian mourning, sparking outrage and censorship accusations.
Feature
An Archive of Lesbian History Right in the Heart of Brooklyn
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.
News
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.
Opinion
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.
News
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.
News
Protest Targets Whitney Museum Board Ties After Canceled Performance
Demonstrators pointed to museum trustees’ links to Zionist entities and weapons used by Israel against Palestinians.
News
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.
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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.