This week we concluded our Pride series, celebrating queer elders including Katherine Bradford, Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, Harmony Hammond, Roy Kady, Joey Terrill, Su Friedrich, and more. You can read them all here. We had lots of fun working on this project. We also remembered four artists we’ve lost in recent weeks: Audrey Flack, Anton van Dalen, Jacqueline de Jong, and June Leaf. Read about their lives and achievements below.
Meanwhile, our News Editor Valentina Di Liscia visited The Campus in Upstate New York, a new exhibition space in an abandoned high school, co-run by six galleries. Our art guides will tell you about many more outstanding shows to see in the area, and down here in New York City. Continue reading about the story of overlooked queer abstractionist Lawrence Calcagno, rare daguerreotypes of American presidents, Islamic architecture in Los Angeles, and much more. Enjoy your weekend.
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Lawrence Calcagno showed in nine Whitney biennials and was a lover to Beauford Delaney, but his legacy is yet to be fully explored. | Michael Klein
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QUEER ARTS CATALYSTS
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“My desires are pretty fluid and I openly embrace the different erotic subjectivities that inhabit my brain,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic. | Natalie Haddad
“My question to myself was whether and how to be an ‘out Jew’,” the longtime curator told Hyperallergic in an interview. | Hrag Vartanian
“If I do not share the knowledge I have, it’s all wasted when I’m gone,” the artist, educator, and activist told Hyperallergic. | Elaine Velie
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IN MEMORIAM
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At the tail end of her seven-decade career, she developed a new style she called “Post-Pop Baroque.” | Rhea Nayyar
“[I] have always worked from the perspective of starting with home, then street, neighborhood, city, world,” the artist told Hyperallergic critic John Yau. | Lisa Yin Zhang
Provocative, candid, political, and unmistakably feminist, de Jong gained international appreciation in recent years. | Rhea Nayyar
“I am a painter who had to have a tactile experience with the world,” Leaf told Hyperallergic in a 2016 interview. | Rhea Nayyar
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WHAT TO SEE IN AND OUTSIDE NYC
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From the Bronx-forward work at Wave Hill down to Robert Podavano’s liminal paintings in Staten Island, shows that’ll make you want to stick around a sweltering city. | Lisa Yin Zhang
From Eva Hesse’s spectacular sculptures to Walton Ford’s fantastic beasts, make sure to catch some of New York’s best shows this July. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, and Valentina Di Liscia
At The Campus, pairings of works by over 80 artists yield unexpected dialogues in classrooms, hallways, a gym, and even a science lab. | Valentina Di Liscia
Summer is in full swing with Judith Braun’s bawdy portraits of women, Dave Ortiz’s disco-like landscapes, and shows dedicated to water, nature, and much more. | Taliesin Thomas
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HIGHLIGHTS IN LOS ANGELES
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This month: Gordon Parks’s iconic photographs, Wendy Red Star’s Indigenous abstractions, Chiffon Thomas’s unsettling mixed media sculptures, a celebration of Juxtapoz Magazine, and more. | Matt Stromberg
What Dix conveys so deftly is that terror and trauma are felt, not thought, and art about these experiences fails when it tries to make sense of things. | Natalie Haddad
The museum known for its mix of history and whimsy received support from the Getty and Mike Kelley Foundations to take on its most ambitious project yet. | Matt Stromberg
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC
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We might think that many of our olde tyme presidents hearkened from an age before photography, but this exhibition of daguerreotypes proves that wrong. | Sarah Rose Sharp
From hot dog memorabilia to cheerleading uniforms, these items capture the essence of Americana in all its problematic complexities. | Maya Pontone
Thousands of audience members hoisted the raft overhead during Idles’s performance of a pro-immigrant song at the UK music festival. | Maya Pontone
This week: the link between American homophobia and Filipino nurses, super-romantic German boyfriends, personal freedoms rated in The House of Dragons, and much more. | Hrag Vartanian
Residencies, grants, and open calls from Palm Beach Atlantic University, AICA International, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
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