This week, I had the privilege of interviewing esteemed American photographer Nan Goldin for our Pride series. She welcomed me into her home and revealed some lesser-known sides of her life and character. Give it a read, please. In the news, those among us who could tolerate it cringe-watched the presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on Thursday. Instead of bursting into tears, we chose to round up funny memes to help us process our collective despair.
Meanwhile, the melted head of an Abraham Lincoln wax replica in Washington, DC, delivers an urgent warning about the state of our climate. Forget “environmental art”; this is the real deal. There’s much more to read here, from a piece about the work of Chicago Imagist Christina Ramberg to a review of trans actress and Andy Warhol film star Candy Darling’s biography. Lastly, please see if you can join as a Hyperallergic member. With a contribution of less than $7 a month (if you opt-in to the annual plan), you can help this publication stay free and independent. Have a great weekend!
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Half a century after the Warhol film star’s death, writer and critic Cynthia Carr brings Darling’s life to light in an empathetic, well-researched new book. | Alexis Clements
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NEWS THIS WEEK
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- We must find ways to laugh so that we don’t cry, so we rounded up the memes that sparked from the depressing material of Thursday night’s presidential debate.
- A Lincoln Memorial wax replica went viral online after this week’s scorching heat melted the head off the 16th president’s likeness.
- Republican Governor Ron DeSantis left hundreds of Florida art organizations high and dry after he scrapped $32M in funding for the culture sector.
- A tourist was detained at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii after he was caught etching his name onto a plaster wall in one of the city’s famous houses.
- Caucasus Heritage Watch’s latest report on Armenian cultural sites targeted by the Azerbaijani regime found a 75% increase in destroyed sites in Artsakh since fall 2023.
- Kehinde Wiley’s accusers respond to concerns raised by the National Coalition Against Censorship regarding the cancelled exhibitions of the artist’s work in the wake of sexual assault allegations.
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INTERVIEWS WITH QUEER ICONS
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“I’m not so interested in photography anymore,” Goldin told our senior editor. “That should be the headline,” he replied. | Hakim Bishara
The artist talks about her epic drawings, her work in the AIDS activism collective Gran Fury, and why plants may hold the key to taking back our bodies. | Valentina Di Liscia
Instead of “elder,” the 75-year-old artist, scholar, and bandleader prefers the moniker “magnificent hag.” | Elaine Velie
“Art history is essentially a bunch of stories. I thought our stories should be in there and they weren’t,” the photographer told Hyperallergic in an interview. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
“For years I was an emerging artist and then it seemed like I couldn’t be called emerging anymore. Let’s hope we are all emerging, always,” the artist said. | Natalie Haddad
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FROM OUR CRITICS |
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Ramberg was one of the lesser-known — but, to my mind, most exciting — artists often grouped together as the Chicago Imagists. | Lori Waxman
Working with line and color for more than two decades, Meyer has shown that reductive painting need not squeeze out improvisation. | John Yau
Combining queerness, the natural world, and paganism, Baldock’s expressive, quirky works expand on the very nature of earth-based spirituality. | AX Mina
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC
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Arlene Shechet’s monumental sculptures, Nathan Young’s sonic experiments, Steve McQueen’s immersive light experience, and much more. | Taliesin Thomas
With more than 180 artists, I’ll Be Your Mirror shows the depth and range of the city’s creativity as well as its diverse LGBTQ+ community. | Natalie Haddad
Now on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the painting is thought to depict Mary Ann Tritt Cassell, a mixed-race woman who lived in the 1800s. | Maya Pontone
Green? For David Attenborough? Groundbreaking. | Rhea Nayyar
This week: curation and BDSM, America’s first lesbian magazine, myths about the human brain, and is smutty literature hurting our romantic relationships? | Lakshmi Rivera Amin and Elaine Velie
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