{"id":1984117,"date":"2026-06-09T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1984117"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:00:49","slug":"inside-chicagos-obama-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1984117","title":{"rendered":"Inside Chicago\u2019s Obama Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><main class=\"gh-main\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Inside Chicago\u2019s Obama Center<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Italian art workers announce a nationwide strike, New York\u2019s Penn Station to feature Trump\u2019s name, and have you heard about the \u201cObamalisk\u201d?  <\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-09\">June 9, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 3 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Penn Station in New York City is notoriously Kafkaesque and claustrophobic. It&#8217;s an urban nightmare, a transit purgatory, and a place to avoid at all costs. To make matters worse, the renovated station might carry Trump&#8217;s name and be designed in his favorite neoclassical style, according to reports. More about that below. <\/p>\n<p>Also, do you remember the historic strike that brought the Venice Biennale to a halt in May? Italian cultural workers are planning to expand it to the entire country this week. They&#8217;re not messing around. And there\u2019s more, including a tour inside the newly unveiled Obama Presidential Center, dubbed the \u201cObamalisk\u201d by locals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/IMG_2109-1.jpeg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"728\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tOn a recent sunny morning, the blue skies and stretches of greenery made the formidably geometric \u201cObamalisk\u201d building seem almost inviting. Over the last five years, the rolling hills of Jackson Park have been reshaped to accommodate the structures that now make up the Obama Presidential Center, set to open to the public later this month. <\/p>\n<p>Spread across the new $850 million campus, the legacy of Barack and Michelle Obama is embodied in educational, recreational, and civic spaces. With works by Idris Khan, Maya Lin, and more, it will be a public art destination for Chicago\u2019s South Side, if it can live up to its community. | Jen Torwudzo-Stroh\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Lysistrata4.jpeg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x758\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Featuring live presentations, this exhibition grounds performance as the foundation of contemporary Native Art. On view at SITE Santa Fe June 5\u2013September 7, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/venice-protest-1-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Italian labor unions, cultural workers\u2019 associations, and grassroots collectives have joined the\u00a0call for a national strike\u00a0across the country\u2019s arts and culture sector this Friday, June 12 to demand better working conditions and show solidarity with Palestine.<\/li>\n<li>Renderings of the winning Penn Station redesign prominently feature Trump&#8217;s name, raising questions and concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"art-review\">Art Review<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Sanford-Wurmfeld-Study-for-II-4S-1971-Acrylic-on-canvas-24x24in---Inna-Svyatsky-courtesy-Sanford-Wurmfeld-Studio-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tSanford Wurmfeld&#8217;s Unstable Geometry<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tFrom the beginning of his career, Sanford Wurmfeld has understood that looking is a temporal act, and has never stopped exploring the implications of that idea.<\/p>\n<p>Having written about Wurmfeld previously, I was curious to learn more about his trajectory, which has long flown under the radar of the New York art world. Done between 1971 and \u201974, the six paintings and one study in his exhibition, <em>Squares 1971\u201374<\/em>, at Ceysson &amp; B\u00e9n\u00e9ti\u00e8re gave me a fuller picture of Wurmfeld\u2019s methodical and relentless investigation into color, as well as what distinguishes his work from other artists working in this area. | John Yau\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe World That Held Peter Hujar and Paul Thek<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThe late photographer Peter Hujar and visual artist Paul Thek keep showing up these days. And now we have Andrew Durbin\u2019s thoughtfully rendered dual biography of these lovers and friends: <em>The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is neither a happily-ever-after romance nor an entirely tragic tale, though both men died of AIDS in the late 1980s. Instead, it feels more grounded in daily reality, more nuanced and ever-changing, holding the full complexity of queer relations with care and understanding. As a dyke, I particularly cherished this portrait of queer entanglement characterized by duration and valences beyond the sexual or romantic. | Alexis Clements<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Rochelle-Saunders-in-the-studio_59415.jpeg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x771\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Develop business skills for cultural management and production on this flexible, part-time online Masters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/ph_14-copy-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1199\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe Quiet Dignity of Peter Hujar<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tHujar wrote that his portrait subjects were \u201cthose who push themselves to any extreme\u201d and those who \u201ccling to the freedom to be themselves.\u201d | Eileen G\u2019Sell\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Inside Chicago\u2019s Obama Center<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Italian art workers announce a nationwide strike, New York\u2019s Penn Station to feature Trump\u2019s name, and have you heard about the \u201cObamalisk\u201d?  <\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-09\">June 9, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 3 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Penn Station in New York City is notoriously Kafkaesque and claustrophobic. It&#8217;s an urban nightmare, a transit purgatory, and a place to avoid at all costs. To make matters worse, the renovated station might carry Trump&#8217;s name and be designed in his favorite neoclassical style, according to reports. More about that below. <\/p>\n<p>Also, do you remember the historic strike that brought the Venice Biennale to a halt in May? Italian cultural workers are planning to expand it to the entire country this week. They&#8217;re not messing around. And there\u2019s more, including a tour inside the newly unveiled Obama Presidential Center, dubbed the \u201cObamalisk\u201d by locals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/IMG_2109-1.jpeg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"728\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tOn a recent sunny morning, the blue skies and stretches of greenery made the formidably geometric \u201cObamalisk\u201d building seem almost inviting. Over the last five years, the rolling hills of Jackson Park have been reshaped to accommodate the structures that now make up the Obama Presidential Center, set to open to the public later this month. <\/p>\n<p>Spread across the new $850 million campus, the legacy of Barack and Michelle Obama is embodied in educational, recreational, and civic spaces. With works by Idris Khan, Maya Lin, and more, it will be a public art destination for Chicago\u2019s South Side, if it can live up to its community. | Jen Torwudzo-Stroh\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Lysistrata4.jpeg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x758\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Featuring live presentations, this exhibition grounds performance as the foundation of contemporary Native Art. On view at SITE Santa Fe June 5\u2013September 7, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/venice-protest-1-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Italian labor unions, cultural workers\u2019 associations, and grassroots collectives have joined the\u00a0call for a national strike\u00a0across the country\u2019s arts and culture sector this Friday, June 12 to demand better working conditions and show solidarity with Palestine.<\/li>\n<li>Renderings of the winning Penn Station redesign prominently feature Trump&#8217;s name, raising questions and concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"art-review\">Art Review<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Sanford-Wurmfeld-Study-for-II-4S-1971-Acrylic-on-canvas-24x24in---Inna-Svyatsky-courtesy-Sanford-Wurmfeld-Studio-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tSanford Wurmfeld&#8217;s Unstable Geometry<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tFrom the beginning of his career, Sanford Wurmfeld has understood that looking is a temporal act, and has never stopped exploring the implications of that idea.<\/p>\n<p>Having written about Wurmfeld previously, I was curious to learn more about his trajectory, which has long flown under the radar of the New York art world. Done between 1971 and \u201974, the six paintings and one study in his exhibition, <em>Squares 1971\u201374<\/em>, at Ceysson &amp; B\u00e9n\u00e9ti\u00e8re gave me a fuller picture of Wurmfeld\u2019s methodical and relentless investigation into color, as well as what distinguishes his work from other artists working in this area. | John Yau\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe World That Held Peter Hujar and Paul Thek<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThe late photographer Peter Hujar and visual artist Paul Thek keep showing up these days. And now we have Andrew Durbin\u2019s thoughtfully rendered dual biography of these lovers and friends: <em>The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is neither a happily-ever-after romance nor an entirely tragic tale, though both men died of AIDS in the late 1980s. Instead, it feels more grounded in daily reality, more nuanced and ever-changing, holding the full complexity of queer relations with care and understanding. As a dyke, I particularly cherished this portrait of queer entanglement characterized by duration and valences beyond the sexual or romantic. | Alexis Clements<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Rochelle-Saunders-in-the-studio_59415.jpeg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x771\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Develop business skills for cultural management and production on this flexible, part-time online Masters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/ph_14-copy-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1199\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe Quiet Dignity of Peter Hujar<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tHujar wrote that his portrait subjects were \u201cthose who push themselves to any extreme\u201d and those who \u201ccling to the freedom to be themselves.\u201d | Eileen G\u2019Sell\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Penn Station in New York City is notoriously Kafkaesque and claustrophobic. It&#8217;s an urban nightmare, a transit purgatory, and a place to avoid at all costs. To make matters worse, the renovated station might carry Trump&#8217;s name and be designed in his favorite neoclassical style, according to reports. More about that below. <\/p>\n<p>Also, do you remember the historic strike that brought the Venice Biennale to a halt in May? Italian cultural workers are planning to expand it to the entire country this week. They&#8217;re not messing around. And there\u2019s more, including a tour inside the newly unveiled Obama Presidential Center, dubbed the \u201cObamalisk\u201d by locals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/IMG_2109-1.jpeg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"728\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tOn a recent sunny morning, the blue skies and stretches of greenery made the formidably geometric \u201cObamalisk\u201d building seem almost inviting. Over the last five years, the rolling hills of Jackson Park have been reshaped to accommodate the structures that now make up the Obama Presidential Center, set to open to the public later this month. <\/p>\n<p>Spread across the new $850 million campus, the legacy of Barack and Michelle Obama is embodied in educational, recreational, and civic spaces. With works by Idris Khan, Maya Lin, and more, it will be a public art destination for Chicago\u2019s South Side, if it can live up to its community. | Jen Torwudzo-Stroh\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Lysistrata4.jpeg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x758\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Featuring live presentations, this exhibition grounds performance as the foundation of contemporary Native Art. On view at SITE Santa Fe June 5\u2013September 7, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/venice-protest-1-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Italian labor unions, cultural workers\u2019 associations, and grassroots collectives have joined the\u00a0call for a national strike\u00a0across the country\u2019s arts and culture sector this Friday, June 12 to demand better working conditions and show solidarity with Palestine.<\/li>\n<li>Renderings of the winning Penn Station redesign prominently feature Trump&#8217;s name, raising questions and concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"art-review\">Art Review<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Sanford-Wurmfeld-Study-for-II-4S-1971-Acrylic-on-canvas-24x24in---Inna-Svyatsky-courtesy-Sanford-Wurmfeld-Studio-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tSanford Wurmfeld&#8217;s Unstable Geometry<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tFrom the beginning of his career, Sanford Wurmfeld has understood that looking is a temporal act, and has never stopped exploring the implications of that idea.<\/p>\n<p>Having written about Wurmfeld previously, I was curious to learn more about his trajectory, which has long flown under the radar of the New York art world. Done between 1971 and \u201974, the six paintings and one study in his exhibition, <em>Squares 1971\u201374<\/em>, at Ceysson &amp; B\u00e9n\u00e9ti\u00e8re gave me a fuller picture of Wurmfeld\u2019s methodical and relentless investigation into color, as well as what distinguishes his work from other artists working in this area. | John Yau\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe World That Held Peter Hujar and Paul Thek<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThe late photographer Peter Hujar and visual artist Paul Thek keep showing up these days. And now we have Andrew Durbin\u2019s thoughtfully rendered dual biography of these lovers and friends: <em>The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is neither a happily-ever-after romance nor an entirely tragic tale, though both men died of AIDS in the late 1980s. Instead, it feels more grounded in daily reality, more nuanced and ever-changing, holding the full complexity of queer relations with care and understanding. As a dyke, I particularly cherished this portrait of queer entanglement characterized by duration and valences beyond the sexual or romantic. | Alexis Clements<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Rochelle-Saunders-in-the-studio_59415.jpeg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x771\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Develop business skills for cultural management and production on this flexible, part-time online Masters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/ph_14-copy-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1199\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe Quiet Dignity of Peter Hujar<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tHujar wrote that his portrait subjects were \u201cthose who push themselves to any extreme\u201d and those who \u201ccling to the freedom to be themselves.\u201d | Eileen G\u2019Sell\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/06\/Rochelle-Saunders-in-the-studio_59415.jpg\" alt=\"Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Develop business skills for cultural management and production on this flexible, part-time online Masters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Central Saint Martins<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/05\/Lysistrata4.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Featuring live presentations, this exhibition grounds performance as the foundation of contemporary Native Art. On view at SITE Santa Fe June 5\u2013September 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">SITE Santa Fe<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/06\/Rose_2007.1.410.45_recto_pol-1.jpg\" alt=\"Divination, Mark Making, Boxing, &amp; Drawing: &quot;Tracey Rose&quot; at Ruby City\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Divination, Mark Making, Boxing, &amp; Drawing: &#8220;Tracey Rose&#8221; at Ruby City<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Opening June 6 in San Antonio, Texas, \u201cTracey Rose\u201d offers viewers an intimate look at the artist\u2019s groundbreaking multidisciplinary practice including performance and drawings.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Ruby City<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/05\/TPC_Garcia_full-1.jpg\" alt=\"America Today: Voices in Contemporary Print\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">America Today: Voices in Contemporary Print<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">On view at The Print Center through July 25, the exhibition highlights the power of print as a medium for expressing political ideals and urgent societal concerns.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">The Print Center<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/inside-chicagos-obama-center\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Daily Newsletter Inside Chicago\u2019s Obama Center Italian art workers announce a nationwide strike, New York\u2019s Penn Station to feature Trump\u2019s name, and have you heard about the \u201cObamalisk\u201d? 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