Crosswords
The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: June 2025
Start Pride Month with clues on Inca Cola memes, Basquiat’s favorite music genres, Dictee’s author, lesbian Victorian photography, and much more.
Guide
Four New York City Shows to See Right Now
Lotus L. Kang, Rashid Johnson, and group exhibitions on home-making and Black style offer insight into how we forge ourselves from history.
Art Review
The Smithsonian Design Triennial Reinvents Home
Twenty-five installations explore home and all its attendant meanings, realities, and emotions, taking visitors on a meander through the minds of artists and designers.
Opinion
We’re Not Your Pride Publicity Stunt
For many Black queer artists, Pride Month doesn't feel like a celebration. It feels like extraction.
News
A New Frida Kahlo Museum Is Coming to Mexico City
The forthcoming Museo Casa Kahlo will intimately explore the renowned artist’s early life and familial relationships.
Opportunities
Opportunities in June 2025
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Grand Canyon Conservancy, the Dedalus Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
News
Whitney Museum Suspends Independent Study Program
The museum is pausing the 2025–26 iteration of the program just weeks after it canceled a performance about Palestinian mourning, sparking outrage and censorship accusations.
Guide
8 Art Books to Read This Pride Month
Dig into new and upcoming tomes on the long lineage of LGBTQ+ art, from Beauford Delaney’s bond with James Baldwin to iconic lesbian photographer JEB and Alice Austen.
Art Review
Tony Tasset Exposes the World’s Frayed Canvas
I wanted to hate these artworks, then I wished to poke my finger through their holes, and finally they became a perfect aestheticization of the contemporary moment.