| A compelling exhibition at New York’s Jewish Museum engages Black American artist Trenton Doyle Hancock in dialogue with Philip Guston’s charged Ku Klux Klan paintings. Doyle Hancock is this week’s guest on the Hyperallergic Podcast, where he discusses his work and life with critic John Yau and Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian. Give it a listen. In the news, the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC, cancels a second show amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity and inclusion programs. The first canceled show featured African-descended Caribbean and American artists; the second was an exploration of sexuality by Trinidad-born Canadian artist Andil Gosine. Meanwhile, in New York, hundreds demonstrate against the Brooklyn Museum’s worker layoffs. On the bright side, the firstLeonardo da Vinci museum in North America is set to open in Colorado this fall. In Opinions, curator Lise Ragbir has tips for artorganizations on how to navigate their way through the unraveling of DEI initiatives, and scholar Emma Cieslik calls on federal and other museumsto do more for queer and trans publics at a time when their communities are under attack. Also this week, artist Danielle De Jesus sketches Luigi Mangione’s court appearance for Hyperallergic, reviews by our excellent roster of contributors, and so much more. Have a great weekend! — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | | |
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| | The artist sits down with Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian and critic John Yau to discuss his work, which brings together Guston’s notorious KKK figures with his own host of comic characters to confront white supremacy. |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Francesca Du Brock, chief curator of the Anchorage Museum, has been named the winner of the 2025 Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History for her holistic and comprehensive approach to exhibition curation. An educator and artist, Du Brock’s work embodies the spirit of collaboration.
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OPINION | | | Amid ceaseless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, art institutions have a responsibility to center and support their queer and trans staff and visitors. | Emma Cieslik
Even if DEI dies, arts organizations should still move toward the accessibility that has always been at the core of the effort. Here’s how. | Lise Ragbir
I showed up at the Manhattan courthouse with my watercolor pencils and paper in hand only to find that everyone wanted “the shot,” and that this work is not for the faint of heart. | Danielle De Jesus |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Discover the artistry and intrigue of fashion’s past and present in this immersive exhibition at The Museum at FIT. Learn more |
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LATEST IN ART | | | Sylvia Sleigh, Kenneth Tam, Christine Sun Kim, Paul Gardère, and Rudy Burckhardt are ideal for anyone who desires a glimpse into an artist’s personal life and worldview. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, Lisa Yin Zhang, and John Yau
Collaged scraps of cloth or crumpled paper in Andrews’s portraits were a subversive and insistent means of encompassing his own non-White, non-urban roots. | Debra Brehmer
Feted as the “Queen of the Bohemians,” Abercrombie saw herself as a kind of jazz witch forging dream visions into a strange, eerie, and occult body of work. | Ed Simon |
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| | | Over 40 works dating from the 12th through the 16th century fill this compact, beautifully curated show. | Natalie Haddad
The pairing of Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz, both longtime practitioners of geometric abstraction, is a stroke of genius for their similarities and differences. | John Yau
Scientia Sexualis attempts a decolonial approach to the subjects of gender, sexuality, and representation in relation to the clinical gaze. | Natalie Haddad |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | An exhibition at the Legion of Honor is billed as the first to explore the artist’s “reinterpretations” of works by his artistic influences. | Rhea Nayyar
New Humans: Memories of the Future will explore the ever-morphing relationship between humanity and technological evolution. | Maya Pontone
Winston Tseng’s satirical ad falsely attributed to USAID at a bike dock in Washington, DC, elicited frenzied responses from Republican Senator Thom Tillis. | Rhea Nayyar
Centered on an Iranian community in a fictional Winnipeg-Tehran hybrid, the absurdist comedy is a joyous depiction of emphatically unalienated people. | Nolan Kelly
This week: Lauren Halsey’s love letter to South Central, James Baldwin’s sartorial revolution, car-free neighborhood design, painterly book covers, and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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