Good morning to everyone except Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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June 26, 2024

Good morning to everyone except Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who just vetoed all arts and culture grants across the state, totaling $32 million. “I’m just in disbelief this could really happen,” Lorie Mertes, director of Miami’s Locust Projects, told Hyperallergic Staff Reporter Rhea Nayyar, who has the story below.

Also today, read about the history of addiction and recovery in art and the NYC debut of a performance that explores abortion through a mythical lens. And for the latest installment of our Pride Month series, Associate Editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin interviews photographer Sunil Gupta, whose pivotal works center the visibility of queer South Asians. You can check out all the interviewswe’ve published so far in this series, which highlights the contributions of queer andtrans elders in the arts, here.

— Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor

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Sunil Gupta’s Hymns to Queer South Asian Life

“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

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The Art History of Addiction and Recovery

Scholar and psychotherapist Kikan Massara elucidates and contextualizes the 12-step recovery process through paintings, prints, and other works of art and literature. | Sarah Rose Sharp

An Abortion-Oriented Cosmology Tale Debuts in NYC

Alexandra Neuman’s latest performance, The Collective Womb, reframes abortion as a natural exchange of energy between the body and the world. | Rhea Nayyar

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