It’s been a big week, but it’s finally the weekend.
| It’s been a big week, but it’s finally the weekend. That means it’s time to see some art, but before you head to the major Diane Arbus retrospective at the Park Avenue Armory, Hyperallergic’s Managing Editor Hakim Bishara has some thoughts you should consider. He writes: “with all the cruelty of the world right in our faces, we don’t need Arbus’s bleak style of confrontational art.” Another must-read this weekend is by writer and curator Laura Raicovich. In her essay, the former Queens Museum director describes the intimidation and smear campaign leading up to her 2018 resignation from the position. In uplifting news, New York State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani’s victory in Tuesday’s mayoral primary race has led to some pretty clever memes. Hyperallergic Staff Writer Isa Farfan gathers the best ones. Meanwhile, climate activists aren’t taking Jeff Bezos’s extravagant Venice wedding lightly. Greenpeace unfurled a giant banner in Venice’s Piazza San Marco criticizing the billionaire (seen in the banner, and probably somewhere in the world, laughing maniacally). This is the last weekend of Pride Month so make the most of it. Get out to some events and catch up on some LGBTQ+ history with stories from our staff writers on Harlem’s drag balls, the gay culture of New York City’s piers, and the city’s first Pride March. And, as always, there’s plenty of art to read about, from AX Mina’s glittering take on sculptor Young Joon Kwak to Anthony Majanlahti’s intense look at Caravaggio to Anne Anlin Cheng on what The Met got right about Asian femininity. Enjoy! — Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor | | |
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| | Questionable curatorial choices seem intended to prevent critical discussion in a major survey at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory. | Hakim Bishara |
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SPONSORED | | | | | These institutions shrink the space between art and life by serving as places where entire communities can cohere through storytelling. Learn more |
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QUEER HISTORY | | | What started as a response to the 1969 Stonewall Uprising has evolved and expanded, taking on an added urgency amid Trump’s ongoing attacks on LGBTQ+ people. | Maya Pontone
More than three decades since Paris Is Burning put the underground scene on a world stage, ball culture remains a haven for the queer community. | Isa Farfan
In the 1960s, amid the shipping industry’s decline, the empty piers became a site for cruising and creativity for gay men in particular. | Rhea Nayyar |
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SPONSORED | | | | | The first comprehensive museum presentation of the artist’s drawings features over 40 works spanning her entire career. Learn more |
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OPINION | | | After an exploitative 2015 show, I was wary about being an academic “beard” for another exhibition in the guise of “revision.” Monstrous Beauty is a different beast. | Anne Anlin Cheng
It’s a story about power, leverage, and fear during the first Trump administration, and also about the potential for solidarity and love in the second. | Laura Raicovich
In my home in Downtown LA, I see artists and activists continuing to rise up. | Angella d’Avignon |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | A lot of the enjoyment of Thiebaud’s retrospective is spotting the Easter eggs of earlier art, whether overt, covert, or something more subtle. | Bridget Quinn
Years before her feminist performance art, she channeled her feelings through a copy machine. | Renée Reizman
He seems to speak to us directly and clearly, given his love of striking light and shadow. We experience him personally. | Anthony Majanlahti |
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| | | A new retrospective of Hamid Zénati is also an important record of an interconnected North African modernism. | Dahlia Elsayed
The artist’s magnificent, rhinestone-encrusted cast sculptures tell multiple stories that look at contemporary queer and trans existence. | AX Mina
The artist’s Twice Seen explores visibility and perception, challenging us to refuse to turn one another into novelties. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | The artist and my dear friend, who died this week just before his 99th birthday, was always curious, always carving away at a shiny surface. | Anthony Majanlahti
“Sometimes, I need to live with a piece to fall in love with it and get rid of any doubt that brews, a struggle many artists know well.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
This week: the Black Arts Movement’s radical aesthetics, Gatsby boat tours, advice columns, Hot Girls for Zohran, Gen Z dumps glitter on ICE, and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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| | | | I am relieved with the anger as there is and has been so much controversy over ART. This is not a sterile academic subject. The whole vast history of Art Production (from Lascaux to Banksy) is the story of our species’ slog through time. We probably should feel a bit of inner turmoil when we enter a place of Art. It’s not just a pretty picture. |
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