Tag: Queer
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Queer Arab Art Today
New York Newsletter An exhibition by queer artists from the diaspora, what we need from NYC’s culture commissioner, Lunar New Year events around the city, and more. In an exhibition across two Manhattan galleries, queer artists from Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and their diasporas come together to invite us to “find one another in read more
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Plunging Into Bex McCharen’s Trans Queer Atlantic
MIAMI — The first time Bex McCharen tried to photograph their extended biological family in the mountains of Virginia, something felt off. The camera created a distance rather than a connection; the intimacy wasn’t there. But in Miami, waist-deep in the Atlantic Ocean with their queer and trans friends, the opposite happens: Images arrive with read more
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Queer Arab Art in Manhattan
Daily Newsletter A Texas university shutters a show critiquing ICE, a medievalist’s ode to a 15th-century Black angel, and “Ponyo” arrives in LA. Winking mother-of-pearl and exuberant paintings dot the walls of a show in Manhattan celebrating work by queer Palestinian, Jordanian, Syrian, and Egyptian artists — aptly titled after the Arabic preposition meaning “of read more
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Queer Arab Artists on Their Own Terms
Features Across two galleries in Manhattan, eight artists and collectives flout the weaponization of their identities to justify violence, instead presenting a vision of belonging and reclaimed lineages. Three years in the making, Alex Khalifa’s “Bust” (2026) faces the display of works on the first floor of Participant Inc. gallery. (all photos by Studio Kukla, read more
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Louis Fratino, Ascendant Painter of Queer Intimacy, Joins David Zwirner
With his fame fast rising, painter Louis Fratino has joined David Zwirner, one of the world’s biggest galleries. Rather than cutting ties with his past galleries, as many artists do when they join a mega-gallery like Zwirner, Fratino will still be represented by Berlin’s Galerie Neu and New York’s Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, which helped make read more
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The Language of Flowers Meets Queer Desire in Kris Knight's Tender Portraiture
In late 19th-century London, the famed writer and ostentatious dandy Oscar Wilde initiated a trend that, as trends often do, flourished into a life of its own. Wilde wore a green carnation—the typically pink petals were dyed with arsenic—to the theater, prompting questions about what the oddly colored boutonniere symbolized. This was the height of read more
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