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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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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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Photographs Capture Two Very Different NYC Pride Celebrations
You can usually find me underground for my Subway Hands project. I ascended to document the NYC Pride and Queer Liberation marches — a study in contrasts.
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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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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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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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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.
Opinion
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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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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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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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.
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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.