[ad_1] This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. When Deborah Bright began work on her Dream Girls series in 1989, only four years after she came out, she wasn’t just asserting a queer voice in the art world. The photography series, in which she […]

[ad_1]  Art #aerial #landscapes #Leslie Wayne #painting #windows June 28, 2024 Grace Ebert All images © Leslie Wayne, courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, shared with permission The German word heimat roughly translates to the web of ideas and feelings associated with home and the land we occupy. During a flight across the Rocky Mountains […]

[ad_1] Mayor Eric Adams and City Council are set to publish New York City’s adopted budget for the 2025 fiscal year by July 1, on the heels of a contentious year of spending cuts that have been met with pushback from institutional leaders, council members, and cultural advocates. The rollbacks have led to reduced programming […]

[ad_1]  Nature Photography Social Issues #aerial #animals #contests June 27, 2024 Grace Ebert Ivo Danchev. “Shepherd Nikola poses with his small herd of the endangered Karakachani sheep breed, one of the very few remaining full-blooded herds that have survived after the Balkan tribe, the Karakachani, were forced to abandon their nomadic lifestyle and relinquish […]

[ad_1] Jonathan Yeo, “Sir David Attenborough” (2024), oil on canvas, 51 1/2 x 39 3/5 inches (© Jonathan Yeo studio, 2024; image courtesy the artist) After raising eyebrows for painting the crown red in May, British portrait artist Jonathan Yeo returns with a completed commission of Sir David Attenborough to celebrate the biologist’s 40-year fellowship […]

[ad_1]  Art Photography #paper #portraits #Sujata Setia June 26, 2024 Kate Mothes “पिंजर (Bastille).” All images © Sujata Setia, shared with permission For centuries in southeast Asia, lingchi was employed as a particularly brutal form of torture in which a knife was used to methodically remove parts of the body over long periods. Translated […]

[ad_1] Kay Turner in a performance promotion for the What a Witch performance series (photo collage by Vanessa Haney, all images courtesy the artist) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. This week, 75-year-old artist and scholar Kay Turner will take the stage at […]

[ad_1]  Art #cities #Keita Morimoto #lights #painting June 26, 2024 Jackie Andres All images © Keita Morimoto, shared with permission While dense cities carry an air of extraversion on the surface, it doesn’t take much digging beyond this superficial layer to see that sometimes even the most crowded places can also be the most […]

[ad_1] Hundreds of visual and performing arts spaces across Florida were shocked to learn that Republican Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed $32 million in allocated funding for the state’s arts and culture budget. DeSantis signed off on the decision on Wednesday, June 12, only weeks before the July 1 start date of the fiscal year — […]

[ad_1]  Art History #art history #color #color theory #pastel June 25, 2024 Kate Mothes With roots dating back to early 18th-century Paris, La Maison du Pastel has the distinction of being the world’s oldest manufacturer of pastels. Producing more than 1,800 unique colors from high-quality pigments still mixed and rolled by hand, the material […]