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“Five New York City Art Shows That We Love Right Now”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Feature
Hyperallergic, October 7, 2025

From George Morrison to June Leaf, the city is alive with wonderful abstract and carnivalesque art. Abstraction is in good form in art institutions at the moment. The Met’s current retrospective of midcentury Ojibwe artist George Morrison brings out a side of Abstract Expressionism that’s rarely discussed in art histories, and well worth seeing. Though […]

“The Explosive Ecstasy of June Leaf”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Hyperallergic, October 7, 2025

by Faye Hirsch “Nobody knew what was in my mind anyway, least of all myself,” late artist June Leaf said in a 2010 interview about her creative awakening as a child in Chicago. “So little did [my mother] realize that what was being developed in her house was a volcano.” No wonder that, in many […]

“20 Must-See Art Shows in New York City This Summer”
Anonymous Was A Woman Exhibition Feature
Hyperallergic, June 16, 2025

Our list of long-running museum and noncommercial exhibitions includes John Singer Sargent, Jane Austen, Lorna Simpson, and so many more. Continue reading

Your Concise New York Art Guide for Spring 2020
Hyperallergic, February 18, 2020

Hyperallergic includes Taking Shape on their list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this season.

A Show About Stonewall’s Legacy Falters on Inclusion
Hyperallergic, June 6, 2019

This June marks fifty years since the Stonewall Riots, a pivotal moment of LGBTQ activism. Institutions throughout the city are commemorating the anniversary, including the Leslie-Lohman Museum, which was established the same year as the riots. It is currently presenting Art After Stonewall, 1969 – 1989 at their Wooster Street location and at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.

Fall 2018 New York Art Guide
Hyperallergic, October 2018

NeoRealismo featured in Hyperallergic's Fall 2018 New York Art Guide, print edition.

How Fascism Complicates the Beauty of Italian Postwar Photography
Hyperallergic, December 6, 2018

Italian neorealism is rooted in the bloodied soil of Fascism. When postwar life arrived for the artists, filmmakers, and photographers who had trudged through the Benito Mussolini years as propagandists, their work had to evolve from goading the nationalistic fervor that drove Italy toward war. Shaped by an era of denouement, Italian neorealism diffused the belligerence of warmongering into a romanticization of the country’s laborers and emerging middle class. Accordingly, the genre became a dynamic negotiation between the realities of postwar recovery and the impulse to render la belleza della vita, the beauty of life, no matter the material conditions of this recovery.