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fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

Every Woman Biennial is here to dazzle, disrupt, and dance in the streets of the East Side | amNewYork

The Every Woman Biennial showcases 400 women and non-binary artists across multiple mediums with the theme Spectalia, emphasizing carnivalesque, colorful, and joyful work in a historic gallery space.
Social justice
fromThe Nation
21 hours ago

The Enduring Lessons of the Jewish Bund

The Jewish Labor Bund's history reveals a connection between past anti-Semitic violence and contemporary actions against Palestinians in the name of Zionism.
fromwww.theguardian.com
15 hours ago

The sheila is returning to Australian culture, riding on a new wave of bogan feminism' | Maria Lewis

The request is made in her signature Aussie drawl, something that musicians attempting to break into the international market would attempt to disguise in decades previous. Yet for the Amyl and the Sniffers frontwoman, everything from her peroxide mullet to proudly bogan background has become an important hallmark.
London music
Berlin music
fromThe New Yorker
20 hours ago

Isa Genzken Finds Chaos in Order

Isa Genzken's art creates environments that challenge viewers, exploring themes of chaos, politics, and the complexities of human experience.
fromTime Out New York
10 hours ago

You can score free tickets to Neon's freakiest new thriller in Washington Square Park today

The Walking Man has been spotted around various New York City subway stations, awarding fans with prizes and terrifying unsuspecting straphangers with an unsettling smile.
Games
NYC LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
2 days ago

20+ powerful historic images of queer & feminist resistance

A new collection of archival photographs captures the activism and community organizing in New York during the AIDS crisis and other social issues.
Writing
fromPitchfork
2 days ago

Wendy Eisenberg: Wendy Eisenberg

Wendy Eisenberg embraces love songs with newfound confidence, exploring themes of happiness and vulnerability in their latest work.
Film
fromQueerty
1 day ago

The wild world of virtual sex work: 6 essential queer cam stories - Queerty

Camming has become a significant form of sex work, especially among queer individuals seeking creative freedom or economic necessity.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
3 days ago

"What Solidarity Really Looks Like": Yael Bridge on Who Moves America

Drivers were delivering packages in deadly heat with no air conditioning; part-time employees, the majority of UPS' workforce, have been unable to receive benefits. Wages aren't rising at the same rate as the cost of living.
Independent films
fromHoodline
2 days ago

Carol Greitzer, Greenwich Village Reformer, Dies At 101

Greitzer helped launch the Village Independent Democrats and quickly became a key strategist in the local insurgency that chipped away at Tammany Hall's machine in the early 1960s.
NYC politics
Humor
fromInterview Magazine
2 days ago

How Mackenzie Thomas's Tweets Made a Sold-Out Theater Cry

Mackenzie Thomas's performance art blends personal storytelling with digital media, evoking deep emotional responses from the audience.
fromBrooklyn Paper
4 days ago

New York City's first Trans Art Fest showcases, connects and empowers trans artists * Brooklyn Paper

Carter Shocket stated, 'They kind of felt like they happened and then they were over, like it wasn't a long-lasting kind of project. It was just a flash-in-the-pan kind of thing.'
Brooklyn
fromLGBTQ Nation
4 days ago

Trump demands Erika Kirk sue drag comedian for brutally mocking her: "Sue their a** off!" - LGBTQ Nation

Druski's video skit, 'How Conservative Women in America Act,' went viral, showcasing a parody of Erika Kirk with over 7.8 million views on Instagram and 28 million on Facebook.
Right-wing politics
New York Rangers
fromBlue Seat Blogs
4 days ago

On a trip to MSG to see the New York Sirens - Blue Seat Blogs

The New York Sirens game drew a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden, surpassing attendance for the Rangers game on the same day.
Podcast
fromArtforum
1 week ago

Schlock Jock: Joshua Citarella at the Whitney Biennial

Doomscroll podcast's live tapings at the Whitney reflect changing museum priorities and the evolving relationship between art and digital discourse.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
3 days ago

"The Drama" Is One Long Troll

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star in a film that explores the fallout of a shocking revelation, sparking significant discourse.
London music
fromwww.bbc.com
2 days ago

Girl group Flo on entering into their 'bombastic, confident, strong' era

Girl group Flo is focused on their next achievements after winning a Mobo award, with their hit 'Leak It' gaining significant popularity.
#philanthropy
fromWomen's Health
1 week ago

They Were Told Wrestling Was Only for Boys. Now, This NYC Club Is Proving Girls Can Fight for Their Futures.

When I step onto the mat, I feel fear, but I remember the countless hours spent in training that helped unearth strength I didn't know I had.
Women
fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

In Film, Sometimes the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen

"Cinematic Immunity" offers a workers'-eye view of Hollywood on the Hudson, revealing the intricate dynamics of filmmaking in New York City from 1954 to 9/11.
Independent films
Arts
fromHyperallergic
10 hours ago

Remembering Agosto Machado, Keeper of Queer Histories

Agosto Machado was a vital connector in New York's downtown arts scene, serving as an archivist of queer history and a beloved performer.
NYC LGBT
fromAol
4 days ago

Cunning Stunt Takes Manhattan: Introducing Club Cumming's Breakout Drag King

Club Cumming is a unique, inclusive space for drag kings, fostering a family-like environment and visibility for the art form in Manhattan.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Required Reading

Compton's art center aims to support formerly incarcerated artists and promote rehabilitation through creative expression.
Social justice
fromHarper's BAZAAR
1 week ago

The Women of the Bund Fought to Free Their Loved Ones

Visitation at Rikers Island highlights the strength and solidarity of women supporting incarcerated loved ones amidst systemic humiliation and bureaucratic obstacles.
fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

Free Multimedia Concert: Women Crossing/Liminality (SF)

The concert features 'Field of Sorrow,' a new work by Juhi Bansal, which sets translations of landays, women's poetry from Afghanistan, for soprano, cello, and piano.
SF music
fromKqed
2 weeks ago

The Dolls Are Coming

"Anything that uplifts, empowers, or highlights women's creativity is a yes for me. The current state of the world is doing a number on women, and I want to contribute to their joy."
Women
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

If I didn't have dwarfism, I'd probably be quite normcore': Midgitte Bardot on sex, drag and street harassment

Tamm Reynolds, a non-binary trans drag queen with dwarfism, is a unique performance artist known for their bold and provocative acts.
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 day ago

gisela colon's iridescent, otherworldly monoliths inspire moments of dreamlike reflection

Gisela Colón's optical sculptures transform material into immersive experiences, reflecting their environments and engaging viewers through light and form.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Shoplifting, sex shows and sheepdog-breeding: great artists and the side-hustles they did to get by

Aspiring artists often resort to various side hustles to bridge the gap between their dreams and economic realities.
NYC LGBT
fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

Indelible' voices: How the NYC trans community is fighting erasure from a Lower East Side stage | amNewYork

Indelible is a forum for trans people to share their stories and foster understanding.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

In "Discipline," Larissa Pham Explores Predatory Art-World Mentorship

Discipline explores the impact of teacher-student relationships through the lens of autofiction, focusing on trauma and the creative process.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

I had never heard something so angry and feminine': Jehnny Beth's honest playlist

I didn't hear Deceptacon by Le Tigre when it was released in 1999, but I was at a friend's house while he was out, going through all his records, and played it by random. It shook me to the core and I think I played it 100 times in on repeat, dancing around, completely excited. I had never heard something so angry and feminine.
Music
Film
fromThred Website
2 weeks ago

Were we wrong about Marty Supreme?

Marty Supreme's marketing strategy backfired, leading to a significant decline in public favor and zero awards at major ceremonies.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Josh Kline Misses the Mark

Artists face an affordability crisis in New York City, and solutions require action rather than relocation.
fromPortland Mercury
4 weeks ago

Mikki Gillette's Riot Queens Requires Us to Read More Trans History

Playwright Mikki Gillette—described once as 'the Joan of Arc of the trans community in Portland theatre' by actor and critic Bobby Burmea—sets the work in the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot. We're dropped into the lives of four trans people practically begging the world to care about their pain, but with very different ways of approaching a brighter future.
Portland
NYC LGBT
fromGothamist
1 week ago

'Hey sexy': NYC launches anti-street harassment campaign in subways, public spaces

New York City launches an ad campaign to combat street harassment, featuring graphic ads and resources for reporting and intervention.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

'Riot Queens': The power of protest * Oregon ArtsWatch

Riot Queens, takes that real act - which sparked San Franciso's 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot, the first known full-scale riot asserting transgender and gay rights in the U.S. - and explores the emotional boiling point that led to it.
SF LGBT
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Remembering Nathan Farb, Thomas Zipp, and Christine Ruiz-Picasso

Three influential figures in the art world have recently passed away, including a renowned photographer, a notable forger, and the founder of Museo Picasso Málaga.
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 days ago

Are We Too Reverent of Marcel Duchamp? | Artnet News

Marcel Duchamp's influence on art remains complex and enigmatic, challenging perceptions and interpretations of modern art.
fromAnOther
1 month ago

Vaquera's Post-Modern Take on Appropriation

There was an outsider's embrace of French fashion standards in this show, like an open-top omnibus tour at breakneck, gendarme-enraging speed of tailored hooded boleros with sweet bows perched on the noggin like something by Marc Bohan or a young Hubert de Givenchy. There were zip-scarred bodycon dresses that I refuse to accept as anything other than homage to Azzedine Alaïa's seminal 1986 originals.
Fashion & style
Arts
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

The Museum Breathing Life Into New York's Downtown Performance Scene

The Leslie-Lohman Museum connects art with the needs of the queer community amidst political challenges.
Arts
from48 hills
3 days ago

With New Works Festival, Lenora Lee Dance opens doors to radical voices - 48 hills

Lenora Lee Dance is launching its first New Works Festival featuring seven diverse artists to explore human rights and cultural themes.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Mitski review pop meets performance art in a masterful spectacle

Mitski strategically withdrew from social media and public visibility while her career flourished, using performance restraint and choreography as protective armor against celebrity consumption.
#art
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago
Arts

Whitney Biennial, Can You Hear Us?

Socially engaged art struggles to maintain its integrity in a profit-driven world, as seen in the disconnect of the Whitney Biennial from current societal issues.
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago
Arts

Inside Fashion/ Art Collective CFGNY's New York Takeover

CFGNY's exhibition 'Puddles into Pond' explores themes of identity, labor, and value through art and fashion.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

In praise of upheaval: Women, art, and the refusal of stillness | amNewYork

Art emerges from upheaval, reflecting change as an inherent female quality and rejecting imposed stillness.
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

At the Every Woman Biennial, Joy Becomes a Form of Resistance | Artnet News

Founded in 2014 as a tongue-in-cheek alternative to the esteemed Whitney Biennial, the Every Woman Biennial has evolved into an intergenerational showcase that mixes emerging talent with established feminist art stars while maintaining the scrappy, activist energy that inspired it in the first place.
Arts
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

In "Riot Women," the Punks Are All Grown Up

burdened by loneliness, depression, and the incessant needs of others, pours herself a stiff drink and steps up to the noose she's hung from the rafters of her airy farmhouse. Then the phone rings: her ungrateful brother, making demands. She tries again-another ring, another request, this time from a friend. She plays the piano, doesn't she? Will she join a group of fellow-amateurs for a charity gig? Twice thwarted, Beth sighs, says yes, and gets on with the business of living.
Television
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

White Girls and the Global South

Spring offers a variety of art books to rejuvenate reading habits, featuring diverse themes and historical insights.
LGBT
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The rise of fascism makes our work even more important': Montez Press, champions of queer, feminist art

Montez Press champions queer, feminist experimental writing by commissioning boundary-pushing auto-speculative and fan-fiction novels while collaborating with interdisciplinary artists.
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

New Ways of Seeing at the Outsider Art Fair

The Outsider Art Fair has enriched New York City's art world since its inception in 1993, presenting eclectic and idiosyncratic artists who challenge traditional fine art hierarchies.
Arts
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Kim Gordon Resists "Dirty Tech" in New Video

Moni Haworth directed the video for "Dirty Tech," in which the Sonic Youth legend hangs in an empty corporate office dotted with bits of office clutter.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

All the world's enraged: a new era of resistance theater' is rising as Trump attacks the arts

On a cool winter night in Los Angeles, dozens gathered to protest the Trump administration's attacks on the arts and the recent federal immigration raids in southern California. But these protestors didn't carry signs or chant in front of a government building they recited poems such as Antifa Tea Party and Love in Times of Fascism. They performed anti-fascist improv to a small but lively crowd at The Glendale Room, a library-themed theater, as part of the monthly show Unquiet: A Night of Creative Resistance.
US politics
Arts
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Paige Powell Didn't Just Document Warhol's Inner Circle. She Shaped It, Too

Paige Powell documented the 1980s New York art scene as Andy Warhol's close confidante, capturing intimate moments of his final years through photography that became inseparable from her identity.
Arts
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

The Tensions Seething Beneath the Surface of the 2026 Whitney Biennial | Artnet News

The 2026 Whitney Biennial features diverse artistic approaches, with AI-focused works ranging from ineffective maximalism to emotionally provocative pieces that meaningfully explore technology's impact on artistic expression.
Film
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

The Cartoonist, the Director, and the Sex Workers

Sook-Yin Lee and Chester Brown remained emotionally entangled after their breakup; Brown abandoned romantic love and became a habitual purchaser of sex.
fromArtnet News
4 weeks ago

Inside the Forum Where Women in the Arts Are Taking on the Status Quo

What began as a passion for collecting became a responsibility. She not only believes in the artistic genius of women, but she wants society in general to hold men and women artists in equal esteem-and to place the same monetary value on their work.
Arts
Arts
fromArtnet News
4 weeks ago

Kim Gordon Was Always an Artist First | Artnet News

Kim Gordon navigates art and music as interconnected practices, resisting categorical boundaries while maintaining distinct approaches to creation and dissemination across both worlds.
fromVulture
2 months ago

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass Demands a Theatrical Release

In the case of his latest film, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, there's a scene in which a character tries in vain to close a door on Gail (Zoey Deutch) and her ragtag group of friends over and over and over again. At the movie's Sundance Film Festival premiere at the Eccles, laughter rippled across the room. It was funny, but then it kept going, and then it got funnier and funnier, the enthusiasm contagious.
Film
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Here's All the Art in the 2026 Whitney Biennial | Artnet News

The 2026 Whitney Biennial rewards extended viewing time rather than quick assessment, with curators emphasizing mood through subtle atmospheric qualities across multiple gallery spaces.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Indira Cesarine on the Feminist Issues Driving the Untitled Space

Indira Cesarine founded Untitled Space to platform marginalized voices in art, operating as gallerist, artist, editor, and curator while exploring female identity through personal and collective experience.
Arts
fromwww.jezebel.com
1 month ago

There's Not Enough Women Beheading Men in Art Anymore

Renaissance art frequently depicted women beheading men in biblical scenes, particularly Judith and Holofernes and Salome with John the Baptist's head, representing a powerful artistic tradition largely absent from contemporary art.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Art Movements: Anicka Yi Picks Up the Pace

Artist Anicka Yi now has gallery representation from Pace, Gladstone Gallery, 47 Canal, and Esther Schipper, while NYC appoints new culture commissioner and art institutions face closures and financial crises.
Arts
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Free Art Show: Feminicons by Georgia Dominici (SF)

Georgia Dominici's solo art show 'Feminicons' opens March 5th at Hotel Biron Wine Bar, featuring acrylic paintings exploring female archetypes through contemporary pop art style with a raffle benefiting the artist.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

"By Design" Treats Women Like Objects

A woman transforms into a chair in a surrealist comedy that exposes how consumer culture conflates femininity with material desire and envy.
#glitter
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Art Movements: Marilyn Minter Wins Again

Marilyn Minter won the 2026 Anderson Ranch International Artist Award amid a wave of museum appointments, gallery signings, and leadership changes.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Nan Goldin's Battle Against Censorship

Art institutions are increasingly rejecting or silencing pro-Palestine artists, exemplified by the AGO declining Nan Goldin's work amid accusations tied to her Gaza stance.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Gabrielle Goliath Strikes a Tuning Fork of Dissent

On January 22, artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo filed a founding affidavit in the High Court of South Africa in Pretoria, stating their intention to challenge South African Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie's unilateral decision to terminate the video and performance series, Elegy, at its national pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. McKenzie had attempted to characterize Goliath's piece, which would have centered Palestinians enduring genocide in Gaza, as "highly divisive" and not aligned with South Africa's interests - even though the country famously brought a legal case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague over allegations of genocide in Gaza.
Arts
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

The Limits of Solidarity

Performative allyship and one-day strikes are insufficient; meaningful solidarity requires sustained accountability, education, and protection for vulnerable immigrant street vendors.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Art and Power Collide in New York City

New York's art scene faces systemic corruption, yet exhibitions by Goya, Amazonian and Indigenous artists offer hopeful artistic resistance and storytelling continuity.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Art Movements: New Leaders Everywhere

Jean Cooney will become executive director of Creative Time; major museum leadership changes include Sally Tallant leaving Queens Museum, Yasha Grobman in Jerusalem, and Amy Sherald signing with CAA.
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Want a Masterclass in How Not to Work With Artists? Ask Google | Artnet News

Persistent institutional sexism and bureaucratic delays derailed multiple public art commission attempts despite museum recognition and financial offers.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Archival Art Will Not Save Us

Archival work supports historical recovery and cultural self-understanding, but not every artwork must be archival and political work requires action beyond mere presence.
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