Art
A Show Asks How We Can Reclaim Our Bodies
Embodiment and its expressions recur as themes in Hand to Mouth, a show that centers artists’ self-determination.
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Interview
Kate Bornstein's Life Through Four Dimensions of Gender
A freewheeling interview with the 76-year-old trans activist, artist, playwright, actor, and OG gender outlaw.
Interview
High School Students Turn to TikTok to Share AP Art Portfolios
Portfolios are graded on a scale of one through five — but there's nothing like public opinion to put one's skills to the test.
Art
A Brooklyn Art Fabrication Venue Opens Its Doors to the Public
Powerhouse Arts’s first-ever “Community Art Day” brought children and adults together for pottery, printmaking, dance performances, and more.
Art
New Mosaics Arrive at Metropolitan-Lorimer Subway Stop
Local artists Jackie Chang and Chloë Bass created two multi-panel series, now on view at the Brooklyn station.
News
Climate Protesters Douse Stonehenge in Orange Powder
Two Just Stop Oil activists were arrested after spraying the structure with what they say is washable orange cornflour ahead of the summer solstice.
Art
An Artist Contends With Brooklyn's History of Enslavement
Adama Delphine Fawundu’s installation at the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park honors the 25 individuals who were once enslaved there.
Interview
Weaver Roy Kady Is a Shepherd First
“That’s what traditional Navajo weaving is: an interpretation of your environment,” the Diné artist told Hyperallergic in an interview.
Performance
Social Tensions From Antiquity to the End of the World
The trials of a post-apocalyptic New York and hedonistic Rome become one another’s mirrors and choirs in The Industry’s double opera Comet/Poppea.
Art
Nona Faustine Unearths New York’s Buried History of Slavery
Faustine’s White Shoes photography series demands a reckoning with the histories and afterlives of slavery, settler colonialism, and genocidal violence.
Film
A Juneteenth Documentary Explores Faith’s Role in Black Liberation
Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom (2022) is screening at the Brooklyn Public Library in Flatbush on Thursday, June 20.
Books
Six Art Books to Read This Juneteenth
Delve into the long history of African-American photography, bell hooks’s essays on art and politics, a graphic novel on the Black Panther Party, and more.