Arewà Basit on Her Amy Sherald Portrait and Alchemizing Trans Joy

Arewà Basit on Her Amy Sherald Portrait and Alchemizing Trans Joy

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” artwork by Amy Sherald. The controversy in question: a painting depicting her as the Statue of Liberty in a pink bob. In July, Sherald pulled her exhibition American Sublime from t…

Baltimore Museum of Art Will Host Amy Sherald’s Canceled Smithsonian Show

The Baltimore Museum of Art will mount Amy Sherald’s exhibition “American Sublime,” which had been set to open at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery September 19. The show, which originated at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before traveling to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, encompasses about fifty works by Sherald […]