May 2, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ Today, we give you our guides for New York and Los Angeles art shows you don't want to miss this month, reports from the Venice Biennale on an exhibition by Ukrainian artists and Simone Leigh's lauded Sovereignty, highlights from the 2022 Toronto Biennial, reviews of Thao Nguyen Phan and the animated biopic Charlotte, and much more.

We also have a new podcast episode with artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin, who discuss their media-based practices and their lives in the digital space with Hyperallergic's editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief 

Installation view of BREYER P-ORRIDGE: We Are But One, April 15 – July 10, 2022, Pioneer Works at Red Hook Labs (courtesy Pioneer Works; photo by Dan Bradica)

May in New York is chock-full of art fairs and arts programming, and the city’s galleries and museums are keeping pace by bringing the heat. This month, intertwined corporeal shapeshifters Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge are honored with their first major posthumous solo exhibition and more.

In Los Angeles, the spring season imbues everything with a renewed sense of vitality. Exhibition highlights include Simone Forti, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Kevin Beasley, and Hayao Miyazaki.

WHAT'S HAPPENING

A work by Denis Salivanov at Piazza Ucraina, an open-air exhibition at the 59th Venice Biennale (photo Avedis Hadjian/Hyperallergic)

• At the Venice Biennale, Ukraine Square features art created in bomb shelters, in exile, and from a place of strength and hope.

• Simone Leigh’s transformation of the US National Pavilion brings ideas of lived experience and the body politic to the global stage. 

• The new grant will award $1,000 to 261 New York State artists who are disabled and have experienced financial hardship due to the pandemic.

LATEST IN ART

Indigenous Artists Take Center Stage at the Toronto Biennial of Art

Inspired by the multilayered histories of the city’s waterways, the biennial’s curatorial team has amassed an exciting array of contemporary Canadian and international artists, with a focus on Indigenous artists. | Rea McNamara

Thao Nguyen Phan’s Multilayered Histories of the Mekong Delta 

In a new exhibition, the artist defies the sequential nature of history, finding various ways to chronicle the many layers of devastation experienced throughout the Mekong Delta. | Tara Okeke

MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC

Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin Discuss Digital Combines

Two new media-based artists have a conversation about the new energy in the contemporary art field and the limitations of categories for artists. | Hrag Vartanian

An Animated Biopic of Charlotte Salomon Is a Missed Opportunity

Charlotte fails to truly depict the famed artist's work and pain. It may just be that no other artist can tell Salomon's story better than she already did. | Dan Schindel

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