The New Yorker celebrates trans
Amy Sherald's cover for this week's issue, "Trans Forming Liberty," is a portrait of the trans model and performance artist Arewà Basit.
The art work is featured in Sherald's show "American Sublime," currently on view at the Whitney. The exhibition was originally set to open next month at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C.-until Sherald learned that the museum was considering removing the painting from the exhibit. Sherald, in response to her perception that the Smithsonian was capitulating to political pressure, decided to cancel her show.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 7, 2025 3:02 AM
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This is why Trump won re-election in 2024.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 4, 2025 8:21 PM
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Democrats will never learn until they cease to exist as a party and then it'll be too late.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 4, 2025 8:25 PM
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A perfect example of TRANS ⚧️ Lunacy.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 4, 2025 8:28 PM
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Straight leftists have never encountered a cause that lit their virtue-cratic lights up brighter than the Gender Identity Movement.
It is in equal parts daring, nutty, amd provocative, mixed with pound-puppy irresistibility, while remaining steadfastly heteronormative!
They'll NEVER let go!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 4, 2025 8:49 PM
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I bet you're real fun at parties.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 4, 2025 9:18 PM
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Besides everything else, the painting itself could have been done by a not-too-talented middle schooler.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 4, 2025 9:26 PM
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The media in general hasn't stopped celebrating trans since at least 2015.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 4, 2025 9:28 PM
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R8 it’s rather excellent, up close and in person.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 4, 2025 9:35 PM
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Transgender is the prelude to Transhumanism. TPTB are agenda-ing this.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 4, 2025 10:27 PM
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And of COURSE the cover model must be black….as well as trans.
LOL! Keep dying on that hill. Republicans are LOVING it!
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 5, 2025 2:44 AM
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R13 it’s an existing piece, currently shown in NY to large crowds. The Whitney sends its love— it dies t need your $.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 5, 2025 3:01 AM
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I guess somebody has to do it.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 5, 2025 4:29 AM
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Amy Sherald has made her career doing prettified ripoffs of Barkley L. Hendricks, who died in 2017 (and who should have painted Michelle Obama).
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 5, 2025 12:28 PM
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Compared to the overpraised Sherald, Hendricks was largely ignored by the mainstream (white) art establishment. Though to the Whitney's credit, they own one of his great portraits, "Steve" bought only in 2015 a few years ago and on view now there. I'm glad he saw beginnings of recognition before his early death.
MOMAS single painting by him "Sweet Thang (Lynn Jenkins) (1975-76) , bought in 2018, is not on view. The Met doesn't own anything by him.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 5, 2025 12:44 PM
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And just like that, the anti-trans trolls heads exploded in unison.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 5, 2025 3:36 PM
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[quote]And just like that, the anti-trans trolls heads exploded in unison.
No heads are exploding.
The sound you're hearing is gales of laughter.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 5, 2025 3:47 PM
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Sick of men in dresses getting fawning praise.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 5, 2025 3:54 PM
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Ah—yes. Only one Black portraitist is allowed.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 5, 2025 4:10 PM
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[quote]Sick of men in dresses getting fawning praise.
Men in dresses with hair and make-up like it's 1962.
It's everything "feminists" rebelled against, yet today that female stereotype look is celebrated by "progressives" such as R20.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 5, 2025 4:10 PM
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[quote]The sound you're hearing is gales of laughter.
Yeah I mean JK Rowling is a laugh a minute.
The trans-hating loons on the DL aren't obsessive weirdos, but fun-funny guys!
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 6, 2025 12:35 AM
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And still no Janet Mock sightings, or comments!
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 6, 2025 1:27 AM
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Nobody likes JK Rowling except for Harry Potter fanboys.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 6, 2025 12:44 PM
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I like her a lot. She isn't bullied and supports actual women. What's not to like?
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 7, 2025 3:02 AM
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