Celebrate June with titles on James Baldwin, queer artists and political action, Warhol film star Candy Darling, strippers and performance in San Francisco, and more.
Happy Pride Month! As we mark the 54th annual celebration, which began after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York, our editors and contributors are digging into new books about the queer and trans artists who have shaped, disrupted, and wholly reimagined a range of creative traditions. Many of these titles flip art history on its head, investigating the LGBTQ+ art that is often excluded from the narrative while honoring generational storytelling. Daniel Larkin, for one, was drawn to a study of nudity as a feminist political act in performance, while Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian takes a closer look at the way a recent catalog gathers the work of artists who are rarely considered together. Meanwhile, News Editor Valentina Di Liscia recommends critic Simon Wu’s first essay collection and Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad explores a tome on queer SWANA artists. Just a drop in the bucket of the prismatic range of queer and trans art history — and history in the making — we hope this reading list is a fruitful place to start. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | |
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| | | Celebrate June with titles on James Baldwin, queer artists and political action, Warhol film star Candy Darling, strippers and performance in San Francisco, and more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Esteemed for their respective interdisciplinary practices that examine the value and paradoxes of urban life, both artists used performance, film, drawing, and various forms of multimedia. Expanding upon the exhibition at 52 Walker, this sixth title in the Clarion series reconsiders societal, artistic, and structural failure — and its related expressions of hope. Shop now |
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| | Legacy Russell’s Black Meme argues that owning, replicating, and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination. | Eileen Isagon Skyers |
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| | Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style considers the political utility of Black abstraction and related forms to refute false narratives of progress. | Alexandra M. Thomas |
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| | From Mesoamerican rituals to royal Asian courts, Holy Smoke explores incense vessels and their rich network of makers, biotic substances, and knowledge. | Nageen Shaikh |
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SPONSORED | | | | A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print.
Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
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MORE TO READ | | | | Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects serves less as a catalog and more as a continuation of a years-long effort to tell a millennia-long history. | AX Mina |
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| | | | Glitter and Concrete demands we take drag seriously as a cultural art form that responds to, critiques, and is a crucial part of American history. | Zac Thompson |
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