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15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer

2 days ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

This summer, Los Angeles art institutions offer both sorely neededaesthetic escapesand deep dives into contemporary issues. There are several career-ranging surveys and historical reassessments, for one, including a look at Barbara T.
8 Art Books to Read This Pride Month

5 days 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.
Tony Tasset Exposes the World’s Frayed Canvas

5 days ago | hyperallergic.com | Lori Waxman

CHICAGO — Tony Tasset is the master of making things that are so bad they’re good. Over the course of the artist’s long career, this has included a 30-foot-tall replica of his own eyeball, a cross assembled from Diet Coke cans, bronze magnolia trees forever in bloom, dirty snowmen that never melt, abstract expressionist canvases painted with condiments, and even a permanent metal rainbow, arced high across a film studio parking lot.
Guide Archives

5 days 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.
Joiri Minaya Upends the Allure of Exoticization

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian

PHILADELPHIA — In a bucolic corner of the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia sits the oldest continuously operating botanical garden in North America. Bartram’s Garden, named after its founder, botanist John Bartram (1699–1777), is the site of many continental firsts, including being home to the oldest ginkgo tree in North America. But its history, as part of the larger project of the colonization of the Americas, is never far from the surface.
Required Reading

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

‣ Five years after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police sparked a global Black Lives Matter movement, one organization in the city has worked to archive the uprising’s protest art. Reporter Deena Zaru has the story for ABC:“I felt this enormous weight to be the one to decide to protect these stories and to make sure that the movement continues through the preservation of this art,” Kelly told ABC News, reflecting on her five-year journey.
How to Get a Read on Rashid Johnson

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Seph Rodney

Once, when I was in my 20s and too much feeling the weight of being a Black man in the United States — someone onto whom most people I encountered would project their assumptions — I had the idea to create a t-shirt that would say, “Your space for projection here.” I feel this phrase could caption much of the work featured in Rashid Johnson’s retrospective exhibition A Poem for Deep Thinkersat the Guggenheim Museum.
A View From the Easel

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

Welcome to the 287th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists create in the cavern of 14-foot-tall ceilings and keep a bucket of water within arm’s reach. Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio. How long have you been working in this space? Two and a half years.
Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Rhea Nayyar

Brazilian photojournalist and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado died at the age of 81 in Paris on Friday, May 23, as confirmed by his and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado’s reforestation nonprofit Instituto Terra. Having traveled to over 120 countries, Salgado was perhaps best known for his striking black and white photos documenting humanity’s profound inequalities, Indigenous communities across the Amazon rainforest, and astonishing natural landscapes.
New York City Shows to See Right Now

1 week 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.