Dear Dad
Art for Father’s Day, new Georgia O’Keeffe documentary, and a chat with queer elder Rosalie Favell.
Happy belated Father's Day to all my fellow dads, stepdads, and father figures out there. To celebrate the occasion, we've rounded up 10 contemporary artists who have made compelling work about the fathers in their lives.
In our Queer Elders series for Pride Month, Staff Reporter Rhea Nayyar interviews Métis artist Rosalie Favell, who confesses: “I came out as a lesbian before I came out as an Indigenous woman.” Worth a read.
Also, check out our list of art shows to see in Upstate New York this summer and a review of a new documentary about painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Happy Monday.
—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief
10 Contemporary Artists Reckoning With Fatherhood
You’ve seen Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son.” You can picture Frida Kahlo’s family tree. There exists a litany of Dutch masters’ renditions of domestic scenes, children crouching at the ankles of adults. What about depictions of dads today? Fatherhood endures as rich subject matter, and there are a whole host of contemporary artists playing with it, questioning it, turning it over lovingly in their hands.
On the occasion of Father’s Day, Hyperallergic has rounded up 10 artists making work that involves dads of all kinds: immigrant dads, absent dads, flawed dads, fellow artist dads, adopted father figures — or an imagined vision of what future fatherhood could be. | Greta Rainbow
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A PLACE FOR ART & IDEAS (NOT ALWAYS IN THAT ORDER)
What happens when art history turns in on itself? Iconoclast Art History, hosted by Caroline Fowler of the Clark Art Institute, gathers scholars at the edges of the discipline — pushing against received narratives and asking what the field has overlooked. New episodes out now wherever you get your podcasts.
Queer Elders
Rosalie Favell and the Search for Herself
“I came out as a lesbian before I came out as an Indigenous woman,” the Métis artist told Hyperallergic. | Rhea Nayyar
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Georgia O’Keeffe the Wanderer
A new documentary presents the artist as a perpetual voyager, generously highlighting her lesser-known work and combating myths about her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz. | Debra Brehmer
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15 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This Summer
James Turrell’s luminous visions, Agnes Martin’s nonconformist heroism, Anicka Yi’s micro-organic experiments, and much more. | Taliesin Thomas
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A View From the Easel: Ashley Chew
“My studio is a manifestation of my coloring book at eight years old.”
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Repicturing Black Fatherhood
I overheard a man suggest to another that Father’s Day be renamed. For him, and for so many other Black men he knew, there was or is no biological father to celebrate the holiday with. | Rob Colvin
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