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Required Reading
This week, minstrelsy and AI, groundbreaking lesbian athlete Helen Stephens, British pubs are struggling to stay afloat, and more.
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Dalit Dreamlands Redraws a Map of the South Asian Diaspora
Curator Manu Kaur rooted the show, on view at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, in Dalit Guru Ravidas’s vision of a stateless, casteless, and classless society.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monument to Empathy
Though Frazier's photography is often described as “documentary,” it betrays a thorough investment in and interchange with those she photographs.
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Hildegard von Bingen’s Eternal Garden
The 12th-century mystic continues to attract devotees among both Catholic clergy and New Age gurus, Christian traditionalists and radical feminists.
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Maia Ruth Lee’s Art of Movement and Memory
Mirroring the work of her linguist parents, Lee crafts a visual language to communicate her diasporic experience with tension and tenderness.
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Where Carnal Needs Meet Unearthly Setting
Xingzi Gu broadcasts memory-mined configurations of lovers and strangers via ethereal depictions of energies, moods, and emotions.
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Seeking Out Diversity at Greenpoint Open Studios
It was the perfect sunny weekend to bounce around from studio to studio, skirting mimosa-filled patio tables and couples with $5,000 strollers.
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The Queer Utopias of Florine Stettheimer
Though the artist’s own sexuality is unknown, the freedom, playful sensuality, and gender euphoria in her work resonate with present ideas of queer community.
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Celebrating Queer and Trans Elders During Pride Month
This year, Hyperallergic honors art-world LGBTQ+ elders who inspire us and on whose shoulders the rest of us are standing.
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Required Reading
This week, Catherine Opie’s definition of home, honoring photographer Corky Lee, the all-consuming world of chess, eccentric art teacher appreciation, and more.
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The Forgotten Islands Surrounding New York City
Photographer Phil Buehler’s fascination with the landforms started with a canoe trip to then-abandoned Ellis Island at the age of 17.
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The Artists Sifting Through Your City’s Garbage
An exhibition in Manhattan’s Chinatown examines the work of waste facility artists-in-residence from New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Portland.