Good morning! Today we invite you into the world of Lee Quiñones, the trailblazing artist who came up amid a generation of graffiti writers and painters in 1980s New York. Listen to his conversation with Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian in the latest installment of the Hyperallergic podcast below.
At the city’s Whitney Museum of American Art, 100 activists staged a clandestine action on Friday night with video and sound compositions from attacks on Gaza, spotlighting the institution’s financial connections to the Israeli military.
Also today, dispatches from New York’s NADA fair and two off-the-beaten-track fairs to visit when you’re feeling the Frieze Week fatigue. As always, there’s more below, including the defiant paintings of Janet Sobel and our list of art books to read this summer.
|
— Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A pioneer of the 1970s New York City graffiti movement, the artist reflects on five decades of experimentation with spray cans and paint brushes.
|
|
|
|
SPONSORED
|
|
|
Chryssa’s long unseen neon sculptures shine again in a new groundbreaking exhibition. On view now through July 27 in Chicago.
|
Learn more
|
|
|
|
Become a member to support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism. |
| Become a Member
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sci-fi, absurdism, and surrealism shine in this show, where the best works rely on pure imagination.
|
Elaine Velie |
|
|
|
|
|
That ’70s Show and Esther are not only authentic community builders, but become visual collective memories thanks to their theme and scale.
|
Julie Baumgardner |
|
|
|
|
|
The strongest galleries convey a sense of locality, often of Indigenous communities, with a particular sensitivity to environmental issues.
|
Ela Bittencourt |
|
|
|
|
|
|
From an occult Renaissance manuscript and the history of eyeliner to Salman Rushdie’s new book, our staff and contributors have got you covered.
|
Hrag Vartanian, Hakim Bishara, Natalie Haddad, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Elaine Velie, Lisa Yin Zhang, John Yau, AX Mina, Alexandra M. Thomas, Daniel Larkin, Albert Mobilio, Nageen Shaikh, Jesse Lambert and Nandini Pandey |
|
|
|
|
|
James Hamilton’s career conveniently mirrors the changing fortunes of journalism as an industry.
|
Dan Schindel |
|
|
|
|
|
Artworks by the students feel delightfully provisional, like statements of intent toward unrealized future creations — but no less meaningful.
|
Claudia Ross |
|
|
|
