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LGBTQ+ Artists Having Institutional Shows This Pride Month

Keith Haring, Untitled, 1986 Collection of Larry Warsh. Artwork copyright © Keith Haring Foundation. Photo: Alain Peeri aka Ted7. Like last year’s Pride celebrations, this year’s take place under the grim cloud of backlash. Trump 2.0 has made life for the transgender community seem increasingly precarious, but even “mainstream” gays and lesbians have to worry …

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In Our Current Climate Crisis, Angelica Mesiti Asks How Can We Re-Tune Ourselves

Angelica Mesiti, The Rites of When, 2024, installation view, at Museum Tinguely, Basel, 2026. Photo Pati Grabowicz, 2026 Museum Tinguely, Basel/©2026 Angelica Mesiti and ProLitteris, Zürich/Courtesy the artist, Galerie Allen, Paris, and Anna Schwartz Projects, Melbourne; Commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales One winter night a few years ago, I joined a …

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The Performance Lecture Is the Perfect Art Form for the Influencer Age

Livestream still from StarQuest, a performance-lecture by Maya Man at Roulette, Brooklyn, co-presented by Harvestworks, May 6, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Roulette. On stage right, a rack of children’s dance costumes: tulle, sparkles, flounce. The lights went dark. When they shone again, artist Maya Man had taken her position. “I always wanted to …

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Here is the Artist List for the 16th Gwangju Biennial

https://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/41001_2544657_1745376039905167258.jpg Ho Tzu Nyen. Courtesy Singapore Art Museum The 16th Gwangju Biennial, opening this fall in South Korea (Sept 5-Nov. 15, 2026), has announced the names of the 40-some artists and groups who will be included in the exhibition. The list was first published by e-flux. The Biennial’s curator, “fast-rising” Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho …

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MoMA to Present the First Survey of Piet Mondrian’s New York Paintings

Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942–43 The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian’s years in New York—in particular, the influence of the city’s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian’s paintings either …

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Duane Michals, Maker of Enigmatic Sequences of Images That Defied Photography’s Conventions, Dies at 94

Duane Michals, Self-Portrait, 2025. ©Duane Michals/Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York Duane Michals, one of the 20th century’s most important photographers, known for making sequences of images that conveyed enigmatic narratives and defied the conventions of the medium, died on Tuesday, June 9, at 94, in a Manhattan hospital. The news was confirmed by …

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Dépendance Gallery To Close After 23 Years in Brussels

Installation view of “Oscar Tuazon: dépendance,” 2013, at dépendance, Brussels. Photo Sven Laurent/Courtesy dépendance, Brussels Dépendance, the iconoclast, 23-year-old Brussels gallery that built a trusted reputation as an “artists’ gallery,” is closing. “Galleries come and go. Some are short-lived but leave a clear trace, others endure for decades without changing much. Dépendance has been there …

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World Cup Fever: Soccer Balls Designed by Futura 2000, Katherine Bernhardt, Hank Willis Thomas, and 20 Other Contemporary Artists Have Been Installed Around New York and New Jersey

Futura 2000 with his soccer ball installed at Journal Square Plaza in Jersey City, New Jersey. Photo Jennifer Brown/City of Jersey City Many in the artworld might be surprised to learn that one of the last projects the legendary art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund worked on before her death last fall involved the 2026 …

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Trump Administration Plans Year-Round Construction for Triumphal Arch

A model of President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch. Photo Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images President Donald Trump wants to fast-track the construction of his proposed triumphal arch to be sited in Arlington, between the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, just across the Potomac River. The plan, which would see work happen year-round and for …

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