“I wanted to question power,” Shiori Ito told Hyperallergic regarding her new documentary. “The system was always the focus.
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Stefan Sagmeister’s Open Secrets to Designing an Optimistic Life
The innovative designer is the subject of a major retrospective at the School of Visual Arts and he talks about his aesthetic, the creative need for sabbaticals, and why pessimism reigns today.
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That Dog You Just Can’t Let Go
What makes Stephen Morrison’s paintings of flower arrangements particularly special is that his beloved dog, Tilly, is integrated into the flowers themselves.
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Tanya Lukin Linklater Opens Up a Space of Contemplation
The Alutiiq/Sugpiaq multidisciplinary artist and choreographer communicates Indigenous movement systems and forms of knowledge through dance.
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The Importance of Small-Town Queer Histories
Hyperallergic speaks with Walter Cooper, who wrote the book on queer history in Santa Fe, and Christian Waguespack, who curated the show on it.
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A Deeply Personal Investigation Into Canada’s Residential Schools
Co-directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie discuss the making of their documentary Sugarcane, told from the perspective of Indigenous survivors.
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The Marvelous and Monstrous Reality of Being a New York Artist
Defying scholarly conventions, Marin Kosut’s latest book takes a searingly honest look at the “impossibility of New York” and the barriers artists face.
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Norman Kleeblatt’s Very New York Story
“My question to myself was whether and how to be an ‘out Jew’,” the longtime curator told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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Ari Moore’s Long Road From Police Officer to Buffalo Trans Icon
“If I do not share the knowledge I have, it’s all wasted when I’m gone,” the artist, educator, and activist told Hyperallergic.
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Deborah Bright’s Art Puts the Sex Back in Sexuality
“My desires are pretty fluid and I openly embrace the different erotic subjectivities that inhabit my brain,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic.
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Carrie Yamaoka Thrives Between the Cracks
“For years I was an emerging artist and then it seemed like I couldn’t be called emerging anymore. Let’s hope we are all emerging, always,” the artist said.
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The Badass Punk Life of Kay Turner
Instead of “elder,” the 75-year-old artist, scholar, and bandleader prefers the moniker “magnificent hag.”