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Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
Spirituality, magic, and transformation are recurring themes in some of our favorite exhibitions on view, from Mestre Didi to Renée Stout.
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Pullman Yards Launches New Residency for Film, Visual Arts, and New Media
Offering six- to ten-week stays with housing, studios, stipends, and mentorship to four artists each year, this residency in Atlanta, Georgia, is accepting applications until July 31.
News
After Pressure, City Saves Jobs at Brooklyn Museum
Union members, workers, and local advocates rallied for months to secure funding to prevent further layoffs at the institution.
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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.
Art Review
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.
Art Review
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.
Art Review
Behind a Flight Attendant’s Painted-On Smile
Michelle Im’s disconcerting ceramic figures subvert ornamentalized representations of East Asian femininity.
Art Review
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.