Art
The Gay Abstract Expressionist Largely Lost to History
Lawrence Calcagno showed in nine Whitney biennials and was a lover to Beauford Delaney, but his legacy is yet to be fully explored.
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Interview
Deborah Bright’s Art Puts the Sex Back in Sexuality
“My desires are pretty fluid and I openly embrace the different erotic subjectivities that inhabit my brain,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic.
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With Humor, Bras, and Yapping Dogs, an Artist Explores Self-Image
Jiwon Rhie’s clean but playful investigations into societal practices and our own perceptions of ourselves put sensitivity and jest at an equal level.
News
Activists Drop Banners for Gaza at NYC AIDS Memorial
Protesters urged Biden to “stop arming Israel” ahead of the president’s attendance at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center opening.
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Presidential Debate Memes That Channel Our Never-Ending Screams
We must find ways to laugh so that we don’t cry, and the depressing material from last night is undoubtedly premium crop ripe for picking on.
News
NYC Cultural Orgs Push for Funding as Budget Deadline Looms
Local advocates and institutions have called for an additional $53 million to raise the city’s cultural budget baseline.
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Required Reading
This week: curation and BDSM, America’s first lesbian magazine, myths about the human brain, and is smutty literature hurting our romantic relationships?
Interview
Carrie Yamaoka Thrives Between the Cracks
“For years I was an emerging artist and then it seemed like I couldn’t be called emerging anymore. Let’s hope we are all emerging, always,” the artist said.
Books
Trans Actress Candy Darling Gets the Biography She Deserves
Half a century after the Warhol film star’s death, writer and critic Cynthia Carr brings Darling’s life to light in an empathetic, well-researched new book.
Art
A Rewritten History of the Taiwanese-Japanese Sugar Trade
There Is Another Capital Beneath the Waves ruminates on commerce, colonization, and conflict between manipulative forces that fuel the engine of history.
Art
A View From the Easel
“I learned my studio has been occupied by 50 other artists from 25 countries, which fascinates me greatly.”
News
Kehinde Wiley’s Accusers Respond to Concerns Over Canceled Museum Shows
“Artistic merit, while significant, should not take precedence over issues of moral injury and human dignity,” reads a response to issues raised by the National Coalition Against Censorship.