Is there anything remotely subversive in Andy Warhol’s male nudes? What is “tropical modernism” and what does it have to do with colonialism?
Is there anything remotely subversive in Andy Warhol’s male nudes? What is “tropical modernism” and what does it have to do with colonialism? Why have many of us never heard of Georgia O’Keeffe’s marvelous paintings of New York City? And why did pro-Palestinian workers at two New York cultural institutions suddenly find themselves jobless? These are some of the questions we address in this week’s vast and eclectic collection of articles, plus: Henry Moore’s stirring World War II drawings, Kathia St. Hilaire’s portraits of Haitian resistance against colonizers (something for ignorant Trump to read), Jimmy Gordon’s surreal circus painting, Mickalene Thomas’s shimmering collages of Black feminine beauty, art books we’re excited to read this fall, and so much more! |
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| | | A show hones in on the tension between colonial European ideas and local styles of architecture as India and Ghana gained independence. | Aditya Iyer |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | | Moore’s drawings made in underground shelters during WWII show us strangers whose lives had been shredded by grief, despair, and fear. | Michael Glover
Like the narratives she portrays, St. Hilaire’s artistic technique is layered and complex, and reflects vernacular cultural aesthetics and practices. | Natalie Weis
Velvet Rage and Beauty seems to position itself as part of a larger project of inflecting our understanding of Warhol with his own sexuality. | Cat Dawson |
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SPONSORED | | | | The latest addition to the Rice Public Art collection will be celebrated with the artist on September 24 at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Learn more |
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WHAT TO SEE IN NYC | | | | Artists including Leon Golub, Charles Yuen, Naudline Pierre, and Manny Vega are kicking off the fall art season with must-see shows. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, and Valentina Di Liscia
The institution’s final show embodies its ethos: inviting viewers to deepen their connections with the world around them via contemplation of art from the region. | Livia Caligor
The artist, a pioneering member of Lexington’s LGBTQ+ art world, used circus and sideshow imagery to create poignant meditations on isolation. | John Yau |
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HAPPENING IN LA | | | | Unsung lesbian photographer Tee A. Corinne, Rachael Bos’s Olympic oil paintings, Samantha Yun Wall redeems mythical antagonists, Tom Van Sant’s portrait of the earth, and more. | Matt Stromberg
The latest edition of PST Art tackles aesthetics and technology with a wide focus, from the historical to the contemporary and the astronomical to the fantastical. | Matt Stromberg
Thomas’s shimmering collages are, among other things, meditations on and appreciations of Black female beauty and sexuality. | Alexis Clements |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | Overlooked by NY institutions and the male art world, the artist’s experimental depictions of skyscrapers get their own exhibition a century later. | Isabella Segalovich
Poems inspired by Hilma af Klint, a fictional account of Peggy Guggenheim’s life, and the first biography of Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine are among the titles we’re most excited about.
We began our friendship with shop talk. Suddenly, being an artist and being a dentist didn’t feel so different. | Rebecca Goyette
We rounded up the best of the best for all you pet-eating, illegal trans aliens out there. | Rhea Nayyar
This week: Hyperallergic visits a local radio station, a documentary on Sudanese resilience, bestseller lists are a lie, Christina Sharpe’s new essay, croissant Temu lamps, and more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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