As Pride month draws to a close, Ed Woodham offers a timely reminder that queer and trans artists should be honored every day of the year. The artist and founder of Art in Odd Places has spent decades championing public art as exactly that: a public good rather than a private commodity.
Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara spoke with Woodham about the price of art-world success and why he has never pursued it. “What I value about Pride is not the branding,” he says. “It’s the resistance. It’s the refusal to be erased.”
Continue reading for the full interview, a frank and energizing testament to carry readers into the dog days of summer. It is a reminder of the values behind Woodham’s work and the force of his perspective.
And for dog lovers, there is also something special in store. The Dog’s Gaze is a new book that follows canine companions through art history, including delightful paintings of scruffy floofs and dignified pups by artists such as Renoir and Carpaccio.
Alisyn Amant takes us inside this tribute to our four-legged friends and the ways their presence in art can transform how we see it. Be still, my dog-loving heart.
—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor
