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3 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Jasmine Weber |Alexis Clements |Daniel Larkin
“He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you’ve had that experience, you see differently.” That’s writer James Baldwin reflecting in an 1984 interview on his late mentor Beauford Delaney, the queer Black painter who introduced the young writer to New York City and opened up for him a new way to see the world.
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3 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Jasmine Weber |Alexis Clements |Daniel Larkin
Posted inGuide 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.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |John Yau |Debra Brehmer |Alexis Clements
Some of our favorite shows this week are all about giving new life to old things and looking at our environments from a different perspective: creative reuse, recycling and repurposing objects, and re-envisioning architecture as inviting and inclusive.
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2 months ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Seph Rodney |Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Alexis Clements
America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made a significant impact on the cultural landscape of the United States.
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2 months ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Debra Brehmer |Alexis Clements |Alexandra Thomas
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. The exhibitions below ask viewers to engage their senses and spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself. That may means noticing details you’d otherwise miss, in the work of Madalena Santos Reinbolt and Deborah-Joyce Holman.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Alexis Clements
Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism for as little as $8 per month. Become a Member When I walked into the Soho Rep on Wednesday, November 6, the day after the election, I wasn’t entirely sure I was up for seeing a play. Even as someone whose life is wrapped up in the arts and who cares deeply for the meaning and solace they can provide, I find myself waryof the platitudes that tell us art will somehow save us.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Alexis Clements
Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism for as little as $8 per month. Become a Member When the political cartoon from which the film Join or Diedraws its title was first printed by Benjamin Franklin, it was a call to unite American colonists in the dual purpose of self-protection and the bloody seizure of Indigenous land.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Alexis Clements
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Alexis Clements
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us LOS ANGELES — So many of Mickalene Thomas’s artworks are beautiful objects. This feels entirely appropriate given that they are, among other things, meditations on and appreciations of Black female beauty and sexuality.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Alexis Clements
I definitely felt there wasa bit of a wink behind the choice to explore questions around nature and queerness amid a highly manicured garden on the edge of one of the country’s most densely populated cities.
