Two members of the Just Stop Oil climate advocacy group were arrested on Wednesday, June 19 after dousing parts of the prehistoric Stonehenge monument near the British city of Salisbury in an…
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An Artist Contends With Brooklyn’s History of Enslavement
Like many people who grow up in Brooklyn, Adama Delphine Fawundu remembers spending much of her childhood and adolescence in Prospect Park. Yet she never recalled learning about the stories behind the…
Five New York Shows to See Before June 2024 Ends
It feels like art is everywhere in the city — from a new gallery in Brooklyn to an Upper East Side townhouse, and even the subway! Make sure you don’t miss the…
New Research Questions the Existence of Early Christian “House Churches”
Where did early Christians come together to worship? Later tales of these gatherings focus on converts meeting within so-called “house churches.” These were described as private residences used for Christian worship in…
Artists Rally at Hammer Museum After Arrests at UCLA
LOS ANGELES — An ad-hoc group of artists, art workers, and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) students and faculty gathered outside the Hammer Museum on Friday evening, June 15, to call…
A Project Honoring Victims of Police Violence Is Going Cross-Country
In 2022, the Brooklyn-based arts nonprofit WORTHLESSSTUDIOS hosted 1-800 Happy Birthday, a posthumous tribute to 12 Black and Brown individuals killed by police. Created by San Francisco-based artist Mohammad Gorjestani, the project…
How a Father-Daughter Duo Changed the Course of Textile Art
On a bright, sunny day in Victorian England, a little curly-haired May Morris gleefully handed a ball of wriggling worms to her father, William. The legendary textile and wallpaper designer smiled: He…
Kehinde Wiley Exhibitions Halted After Sexual Assault Allegations
Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org. Two museums have nixed or postponed their iterations…
Islands of Kinship Culminates With a Book Launch and Symposium on Inclusivity in Language
An initiative of the international project Islands of Kinship, Language Matters: Accessible and Inclusive Communication in Art Spaces, a free symposium about accessibility in art institutions focusing particularly on the role of…
Su Friedrich’s Life in Moving Images
This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. “It’s so hard from this vantage point to really grasp how tiny things were…