Our top story today is Emma Cieslik’s call to action for museums to support queer and trans people as the Trump administration continues its sinister attacks on the LGBTQ+ community.
| Good morning. Our top story today is Emma Cieslik’s call to action for museums to support queer and trans people as the Trump administration continues its sinister attacks on the LGBTQ+ community. Her piece today offers critical guidelines for cultural institutions, many of which once touted DEI programs as a way to bring in audiences, to walk the walk. Illustrated manuscripts, gilded reliquaries, limestone gargoyles, oh my! A new exhibition at Luhring Augustine in New York City, writes Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad, offers a “basic primer on European medieval art” in a fresh context — a gallery typically reserved for contemporary art — that invites novel perspectives and interpretations. If you haven’t already, register to tune into our virtual event with this year’s Craft Archive Fellowship cohort tonight at 5pm (EST) for a discussion about their research on underrepresented craft histories. And in the news today, newly released footage shows the infamous heist of Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet artwork and Florida’s Republican governor wants to transfer the Ringling museum to a right-leaning college. Also, Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar looks at the influential legacy of Diné weaver Martha Gorman Schultz, who died last Friday at the age of 93. — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | | |
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| | Amid ceaseless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, art institutions have a responsibility to center and support their queer and trans staff and visitors. | Emma Cieslik |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Guadalupe Maravilla, Selva Aparicio, Felipe Baeza, and Jeffrey Meris have been awarded the 2025 Vilcek Prizes in Visual Arts. Learn more |
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HAPPENING TONIGHT! | | | The 2024 Craft Archive Fellows will present their research on underrepresented craft histories in an online event hosted by the Center for Craft and moderated by Hyperallergic associate editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin. |
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EXHIBITION REVIEWS | | | Over 40 works dating from the 12th through the 16th century fill this compact, beautifully curated show. | Natalie Haddad |
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SPONSORED | | | | | The show brings together 21 artists and collectives from across the Gulf region to explore themes like ecological change, spatial politics, and urban transformation. Learn more |
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| | 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 |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects serves less as a catalog and more as a continuation of a years-long effort to tell a millennia-long history. | AX Mina |
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IM MEMORIAM | | Richard Flood (1944–2025)
Longtime New Museum curator | Hyperallergic
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Monochrome documentary and landscape photographer | Guardian
Mary Elizabeth Cantú (1979–2025)
San Antonio artist and founder of non-profit Spare Parts | San Antonio Current
Dennis Crompton (1935–2025)
British architect and co-founder of Archigram group | Artreview
Frankétienne (1936–2025)
Haitian artist and writer | Haitian Times
M. Paul Friedberg (1931–2025)
Landscape architect who designed iconic NYC locales | Architectural Record
James R. Grieves (1932–2025)
Architect who designed the Brandywine River Museum | Baltimore Sun
Serge Lasvignes (1954–2025)
Former Centre Pompidou president | Artreview
Miyeko Murase (1924–2025)
Japanese curator and art scholar | Japan Society
Jeong Soo-il (1934–2025)
Korean art historian and Silk Road scholar | Korea Herald
Robert Seaman (1932–2025)
Artist of “daily doodles” during COVID-19 pandemic | Associated Press
Gerd Stern (1928–2025)
Multimedia artist and poet | New York Times
Clark Walker (1940–2025)
Alabama painter | WSFA 12 |
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