This was not a good week for Kehinde Wiley.
This was not a good week for Kehinde Wiley. Three museums have abandoned planned shows by the American artist after four people accused him of sexual misconduct. Wiley denies the allegations. Opinions are split on whether he’s being judged and punished too soon. It was also a challenging week for Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak and several other officials and trustees after protests against Israel’s war in Gaza reached their homes. We covered all sides of that story in our reporting. Yes, it got a little bit heavy, but that didn’t stop us from celebrating beloved queer elders including Harmony Hammond, Joey Terrill, and Su Friedrich, or from recommending great shows to visit in Washington, DC, and Los Angeles this summer. We also have plenty of exhibition and book reviews for your consideration, including my response to Jenny Holzer’s current show at the Guggenheim Museum. Also, don’t forget Father’s Day tomorrow. We celebrate it with an essay about textile artists May and William Morris. There’s much more, but before you continue reading, we need your help keeping this publication strong and independent. The best way to do that is to join as a Hyperallergic member. You can start with just $8 a month (or $80/year). Have a great weekend! — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
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| | | May and William Morris’s fascinating and complicated relationship deserves to be studied in its own right. | Isabella Segalovich |
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SPONSORED | | | | Crafted from fallen timber the artist gathered in the Sierra Nevada forests, this site-specific work is set in the botanical gardens at the Los Angeles institution.
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QUEER TRAILBLAZERS | | | | “I want my work to have a confessional nature about my life, my identity, and who I am,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic. | Valentina Di Liscia
The mainstream art world might finally be catching up with Hammond, who has been breaking barriers for more than six decades. | Nancy Zastudil
The artist, curator, and organizer opens up and blurs the boundaries between categories, experimenting with new spaces and methods of moving through the world. | Lisa Yin Zhang
“I always had the feeling that there isn’t just a single thing to do,” the artist told Hyperallergic. “I enjoy mixing text and images, real life and invented scenarios.” | Rhea Nayyar
The veteran performance artist spoke with Hyperallergic about camp, queerness, anti-porn discourse, and nurturing feminist community across generations. | Elaine Velie |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | | Gaza is everywhere across the artist’s Guggenheim show, but you wouldn’t know it. | Hakim Bishara
A joint exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery makes clear the force of Francesca Woodman’s authorial voice and Julia Margaret Cameron’s radicality. | Natalie Haddad
In Nishimura’s devastating photographs of everyday life in Japan, the past is never past, and the people are rendered invisible. | John Yau |
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| | | Fiercely independent, the artist belongs to no art group, movement, or style. | John Yau
The Brazilian artist weaves together archives, family albums, and records of Black suffering to suture a history of Amefricanas. | Valentina Di Liscia
Helander removes her art from the frozen time in which still life paintings exist and reminds us that the moment recreated has already come and gone. | John Yau |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | The art scene has something for everyone this season, from Kwame Brathwaite and mural collective East Los Streetscapers to Simone Leigh and Zapotec textile art. | Matt Stromberg
Lose yourself and find hope in women and queer-led shows in the capital this season. | Murat Cem Mengüç
Unlike European Christian notions regarding human dominion over all of creation, the Haudenosaunee belief is that our relationship with the earth is one of responsibilities. | Scott Manning Stevens
In God Made My Face, artists and critics reflect on seeing themselves through the late metamorphic writer’s work. | Jasmine Weber
This week, illicit antiquity trading, Harlem Renaissance patrons and whiteness, a new biography of Joni Mitchell, Diane Keaton season, and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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