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Listening to Our Queer & Trans Elders

We kick off our Pride Month series with painter Jamie Nares. Plus, a sports betting company makes its first foray into the art market.

Hyperallergic

June 8, 2026 — 3 min read

Today, we’re excited to kick off our annual Pride series with the first of several interviews with queer and trans elders in the art community. First up is Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia’s moving conversation with British painter Jamie Nares, who opens up about embracing her identity as a trans woman, finding belonging in New York City, and what she’s working on next. After all, she says, “I’m now 72 and I’ve never been so full of ideas in my life.”

Meanwhile, in the news, what do you get when you mix the art market with gambling? That’s what Kalshi, a US government-regulated sports betting company, is about to find out. Matt Stromberg reports today on its new art offshoot, which it claims can help democratize the famously elitist market by allowing everyday people to buy in. Let’s see how it goes — place your bets now.

—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor

Jamie Nares’s Enduring Romance With the Brushstroke

In sublime canvases animated by choreographies of sweeping motion, Jamie Nares captures the bravura of a brushstroke. The London-born artist has also made experimental films, photography, and music rooted in the spirit of the No Wave movement into which she was thrust when she relocated to New York City in the mid-1970s.

In our interview, Nares, who came out as transgender in 2019 and changed her name in 2024, leads us through her distinct personal and artistic evolutions, journeys paved by a search for truth. Insistent on finding “the essences of things,” on “stripping away what’s superfluous,” the artist articulates a poetics of life and identity.

Divination, Mark Making, Boxing, & Drawing: “Tracey Rose” at Ruby City

Opening June 6 in San Antonio, Texas, “Tracey Rose” offers viewers an intimate look at the artist’s groundbreaking multidisciplinary practice including performance and drawings.

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News

Amid heightened scrutiny over insider trading and state gambling regulations, the prediction market platform Kalshi has ventured into the rarefied space where fine art and big money meet, launching a section dedicated to art markets.
The New School in Manhattan has laid off 19 full-time faculty and 68 staff members as it confronts a $160 million budget deficit attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and declining student enrollment.

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