This week we launched our Pride Month series of interviews with queer elders in the art community, and I personally enjoyed reading all of them. So far, we’ve featured conversations with artists Katherine Bradford, Catherine Opie, Nishan Kazazian, Linda Mussmann, and Carol Ockman. Stay tuned for more next week. Hyperallergic, a queer-owned publication, is about to celebrate 15 years of groundbreaking art journalism. If you can, please consider becoming a member to support our work. You can start with just $8 a month (or discounted $80 for the year). I spent as much on a chai latte at a New York museum café the other week, and it wasn’t even good. Thanks for reading and enjoy your weekend! — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
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Though the artist’s own sexuality is unknown, the freedom, playful sensuality, and gender euphoria in her work resonate with present ideas of queer community. | Izzy DeSantis
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NEWS THIS WEEK
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THIS MONTH'S CROSSWORD
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Start off Pride Month with queer French painters, artists’ Zodiac signs, morse code symbols, and more in this June’s puzzle. | Natan Last
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CELEBRATING QUEER AND TRANS ELDERS
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Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series honors art-world LGBTQ+ elders who inspire us and on whose shoulders the rest of us are standing.
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“I don’t think anybody believed I could be an artist,” the 82-year-old painter told Hyperallergic in an interview. | Hakim Bishara
From street snapshots to resplendent studio photographs, the artist draws us powerfully into her life-long project of bearing witness to her community. | Valentina Di Liscia
Bridging art and architecture is the Lebanese-Armenian-American artist’s life’s work. | Hrag Vartanian
The artist speaks to Hyperallergic about founding an art space in Upstate New York and being among the first in the state to marry a same-sex partner. | Elaine Velie
The New York- and California-based artist, scholar, and mentor talks how her queerness shaped her expansive thinking and career. | Lisa Yin Zhang
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Xingzi Gu broadcasts memory-mined configurations of lovers and strangers via ethereal depictions of energies, moods, and emotions. | Clare Gemima
Though Frazier’s photography is often described as “documentary,” it betrays a thorough investment in and interchange with those she photographs. | Zoë Hopkins
Mirroring the work of her linguist parents, Lee crafts a visual language to communicate her diasporic experience with tension and tenderness. | Sigourney Schultz
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC
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This month: Pacita Abad’s trapunto paintings, Nona Faustine’s stirring body art, Ibrahim Said’s futuristic ceramics, and much more. | Hakim Bishara, Hrag Vartanian, Julie Schneider, Daniel Larkin, and Kealey Boyd
The 12th-century mystic continues to attract devotees among both Catholic clergy and New Age gurus, Christian traditionalists and radical feminists. | Ed Simon
“One can never have too much natural light.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
This week, minstrelsy and AI, groundbreaking lesbian athlete Helen Stephens, British pubs are struggling to stay afloat, and more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin and Elaine Velie
Residencies, open calls, and grants from the Vilcek Foundation, the Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
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