Plus Adama Delphine Fawundu, Melissa Meyer, Chloë Bass, and Jackie Chang.
Summer’s only just officially begun and the weather has been unkind to us already. We recommend cooling down with a refreshing dose of art, preferably while you’re on a well-deserved vacation in Upstate New York. Hyperallergic contributor Taliesin Thomas has your back with a colorful list of 15 must-see shows on view all summer long, from rarely seen photographs by Carrie Mae Weems at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College to Arlene Shechet’s monumental outdoor sculptures at Storm King Art Center. What are you waiting for? It’s time to plan a getaway.
While the goings-on upstate are good, art is still alive in the city. In his latest review, John Yau argues that Melissa Meyer “deserves a long overdue survey.” Spanning 20 years of work, her current show Throughlines at Olympia is a great place to get to know the artist, so be sure to catch it before it leaves the gallery on June 29.
Have you been enjoying our Pride Month series of interviews with queer elders in the art community? We’ve fallen in love with their stories, many of which paint a gritty, glamorous picture of New York in the 1970s and ’80s. Our most recent interviews feature Nan Goldin, Kate Bornstein, Lola Flash, Marlene McCarty, and Jimmy Wright. They’re seriously worth a read. | |
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| John Yau | Melissa Meyer: Throughlines at Olympia | “The show covers the past two decades (2003 to 2024), when she changed her practice and thus elevated her work to a place that is recognizably hers.... In contrast to her earlier paintings, with their dense brushstrokes, Meyer’s art of the past 20 years consists of thinly painted abstract glyphs. They are asemic signs, evoking both a language with no semantic meaning and indecipherable urban graffiti.” |
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WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING? | | | Powerhouse Arts’s first-ever “Community Art Day” brought children and adults together for pottery, printmaking, dance performances, and more. Get to know queer and trans trailblazers in the NYC art world through the latest interviews in Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series: Nan Goldin, Lola Flash, Kate Bornstein, Jimmy Wright, and Marlene McCarty. It’s Primary day in NY. Here’s what you need to know. [gothamist.com] The New York Times Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covid [thenation.com] Celebrate the 35th anniversary of Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989) with a free movie screening at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park on July 6. [bricartsmedia.org] |
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