Mariam Ghani, “Garden of Forked Tongues” (2016) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)
Welcome back to the Hyperallergic Podcast. In our latest episode, we continue on our mission to bring you playful, serious, and radical perspectives on art and culture in the world today.
This episode focuses on New York’s borough of Queens, which is becoming a growing hub of artistic activity in the city.
Tania Bruguera showing her Pangaea tattoo during our interview in Bryant Park.
We talk to Tania Bruguera about her Immigrant Movement International project in Queens and her experience in Cuba, then we chat with artist Mariam Ghani about her commissioned mural at the Queen Museum, and finally we wander the Queens International biennial with director Laura Raicovich and guest co-curator Lindsey Berfond to discuss the exhibition’s themes of accumulation and globality.
You can now subscribe to the Hyperallergic Podcast on iTunes, Soundcloud, or via RSS.
Here are some images from Queens International at the Queens Museum:
Sam Vernon, “Louise & Sam” (2016)
Lawrence Mesich, “Highest and Best Use (388 Bridge St.)” (2016)
Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, “KZ” (2016)
Melanie McLain, “Prepersonal” (2016)
Shane Mecklenburger, “Tendered Currency: Gunpowder Diamond” (2016)
Dave Hardy, “Destiny” (2014)
Interior of Brian Caverly, “Studio Abandon” (2011-16)
Exterior of Brian Caverly, “Studio Abandon” (2011-16)
Janks Archive, “Untitled (Forest Janks)” (2016)
Barb Smith, “Memory of a tiptoe, an evacuation, expansion cement, stolen doorstop … ” (2016)
![Vahap Avṣar, "Lost Shadown [AND Museum]" (2015–16)](https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2016/05/26950513330_1abbdeea2c_k-1400.jpg?resize=780%2C585&quality=100)
Vahap Avṣar, “Lost Shadown [AND Museum]” (2015–16)
TheQueens Internationalcontinues at the Queens Museum (New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens) until July 31.
The Latest
Bobby Wilson Combats Indigenous Stereotypes Through Humor
The artist-performer’s career undulates, ever so gracefully, across multiple mediums and registers of generational pain, healing laughter, and Indigenous joy.
Rare 19th-Century Silhouette Album’s Secrets Unlocked
Traveling portrait artist William Bache’s album depicts famous figures like Thomas Jefferson as well as people whose identity was previously unknown.
Nevada Museum of Art Presents Adaline Kent: The Click of Authenticity
For the first time in nearly 60 years, the innovative yet under-recognized artist is the subject of a retrospective exhibition. On view in Reno, Nevada.
Artists Show What They Can Do With a Google Phone’s Camera
Works by 20 photographers are now on view in Manhattan for the seventh season and 100th project coming out of the Google Creator Labs.
Met Museum Kicked Me Out for Praying to My Ancestral Gods
My danced prayer to looted Cambodian antiquities was too much for the New York museum.
The Public Theater in NYC Presents Plays for the Plague Year
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’s theatrical concert chronicles the 2020 lockdown and the hope and perseverance that emerged from it.
A Museum Guard’s Ode to the Healing Power of Art
In All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley revisits the many ways that art meets life, and life art, and how death is often the bridge between them.
UK Extends Export Ban on Coveted “Portrait of Omai”
London’s National Portrait Gallery was given a few months to acquire the work, which depicts the first Polynesian visitor to the UK.
Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists
Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school’s graduating students. MFA and BFA work on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York.
The Sculptor Making Art With Loved Ones’ Ashes
Inspired by the three-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, Julian Stair’s exhibition honors the lives of eight people with cinerary jars.
Art Institute of Chicago Under Scrutiny Over Sacred Nepali Necklace
The 17th-century object remains on display at the Chicago museum despite Nepal’s calls for repatriation.
LSU School of Art Grants Highest MFA Stipends in the Southern US
With funded assistantships, full tuition waivers, and generous stipends, Louisiana State University helps students lay the groundwork for a successful lifelong art practice.
Art Problems: How Do I Get a Public Art Commission?
Want to leave a mark on your city or town, but don’t know where to start? Paddy Johnson has some tips.
Rose B. Simpson Embeds Ancestral Histories in Clay
She has taken clay and used it to recall its ancestral roots in Pueblo culture and address the present history of postcolonial recovery and ongoing trauma.