New York: Capturing the Abundant Glow of Black Queer Life

Happy Pride, y'all. While June may be drawing to a close, we're big fans of celebrating queer art all

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Happy Pride, y'all. While June may be drawing to a close, we’re big fans of celebrating queer art all year long. In that vein, Alexandra Thomas delves into the rousing photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode, thankfully on view at Hales Gallery through July.On that note, we’ll be OOO next week for a collective breather. In the meantime, keep an eye out for some handpicked favorites from the archive. Smell ya later and happy summer.— Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

Rotimi Fani-Kayode Captures the Abundant Glow of Black Queer Life In Tranquility of Communion, soul-stirring photographs blend Yoruba cosmologies, queer desire, and Baroque theatricality. Alexandra M. Thomas

SPONSORED "Patrick Nagatani: Chain Reaction" Opens at the Bruce Museum The Japanese-American photographer’s entire “Nuclear Enchantment” series is on view at the Connecticut museum through October 10.

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Creating Community: Cinque Gallery Artists at the Art Students League of New York through July 3 Ming Smith: Evidence online and at Nicola Vassell Gallery through July 3 Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And at the Brooklyn Museum through July 18 See It Big: The Return! at the Museum of the Moving Image through July 18 Deborah Remington: Early Drawings at Craig F. Starr Gallery through July 30 Frank Bowling – London / New York at Hauser & Wirth NY through July 30

On View in Museums

Alice Neel: People Come First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 1 Felipe Ehrenberg: Testamento at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) through August 7 Julie Mehretu at the Whitney Museum through August 8 Projects: Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill at the Museum of Modern Art through August 15 Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life at MoMA PS1 through September 6 Born in Flames: Feminist Futures at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through September 12 Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughterat the Jewish Museum through September 12 Estamos Bien — La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio through September 26 Off the Record at the Guggenheim Museum through September 27 Deana Lawson, Centropy at the Guggenheim Museum through October 11 Kusama: Cosmic Nature at the New York Botanical Gardens through October 31 Liza Lou’s “Kitchen” at the Whitney Museum through February 2022 Cruising the Horizon: New York continues online at the Latinx Project at New York University

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