Sep 9, 2025
In the international queer community, Arewà Basit is known as a dancing, singing don-diva who makes music, performs in drag, and co-leads the Black queer production organization Legacy. These days, she’s also making headlines for being the subject of a “controversial”...
Sep 5, 2025
Over a month after painter Amy Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), citing concerns over possible censorship, the artist has found a new home for the next stop of her touring exhibition. American Sublime, which was on view at the...
Aug 27, 2025
Amy Sherald, the painter most widely known for her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, detailed her decision to withdraw her exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) amid concerns over censorship at the institution in a new...
Aug 6, 2025
Amy Sherald, “As American as Apple Pie” (2020) in Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo Hyperallergic) Once, when I was involved in a romance that was slowly coming to a close, I described to my then-partner that I felt...
Aug 5, 2025
Amy Sherald’s work “Trans Forming Liberty” on the cover of the New Yorker (image courtesy the New Yorker/Amy Sherald) Days after Amy Sherald withdrew her acclaimed solo show American Sublime from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait...
Jul 25, 2025
A visitor with Amy Sherald’s painting “Trans Forming Liberty” (2024) at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) The painter Amy Sherald has rescinded her upcoming exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National...