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Dessane Lopez Cassell

Dessane Lopez Cassell is a New York based editor, writer, and film curator, as well as the former reviews editor at Hyperallergic. You can follow her work here.

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Stay Connected With Weekly Artist Q&As on Instagram

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell March 17, 2020

As many artists and art lovers alike continue to hunker down at home, nonprofit Tiger Strikes Asteroid will launch its second edition of #AskTigerStrikesAsteroid, a new series of Q&As with artists.

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Artists Remind Us that Sex Work Is Work

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell March 10, 2020March 10, 2020

The Sex Workers’ Pop-Up brings together installations, performances, and conversations from an exciting group of international artists, many of whom are or were sex workers themselves.

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Visiting the 2020 Armory Show Amid Ominous Headlines

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell March 6, 2020March 6, 2020

From art about environmental recklessness to Caribbean post-coloniality, Armory kicked off the spring art fair season in spite of growing coronavirus concerns.

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Amid Climate Change and Rapid Gentrification, a Caribbean Film Festival Centers Notions of Home

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell March 3, 2020March 3, 2020

Embracing the full spectrum of Caribbean experiences and cultures, Third Horizon has created a dynamic community devoted to highlighting cinema from and about the region its founders call home.

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Noah Davis’s Delightfully Surreal Visions of the Black Mundane

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell February 19, 2020February 19, 2020

About Black people, and made for Black people, Davis’s compositions — whether hazy, nostalgic, or sumptuously surreal — are of a world that is both familiar yet strange.

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Don’t Cry Cause It’s Over: A Program of Queer Experimental Shorts Reframes Loss

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell December 10, 2019

This Saturday, Anthology Film Archives presents Representations of Leaving: Queer Death and Heavens, a program of experimental shorts focused on experiences of loss, rebirth, and queer utopia.

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In Brooklyn, a Night With Fluid Experimentalists Roland P. Young and L’Rain

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell November 19, 2019November 19, 2019

Each known for their genre-bending improvisation, the two musicians will treat audiences to a special double bill at Public Records on Thursday — Young’s first solo performance in over 10 years.

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Living With the Ghosts of Migration

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell November 15, 2019November 15, 2019

In her debut feature Atlantics, Mati Diop renders stories of migration through a feminist lens, offering a meditation on who gets to forge their own path.

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“There’s Some Leisure in It, Too”: Kevin Jerome Everson on Labor, Art, and Film

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell October 24, 2019August 3, 2022

A recent recipient of the prestigious Heinz Award, the artist and filmmaker discusses his process and the importance of seeing art-making as another form of labor. Hyperallergic also has an exclusive stream of his short film Ears, Nose and Throat.

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Revealing Lost Archives of Black Cinema and Creating New Ones

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell October 10, 2019December 6, 2019

Hyperallergic talks to director Garrett Bradley about gaps in film preservation, her new film America, and the retrospective it’s a part of at BAM.

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9 Highlights From Bushwick Open Studios 2019

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Alissa Guzman, Dessane Lopez Cassell and Hrag Vartanian September 23, 2019September 23, 2019

We’ve selected gems from the 13th edition of Bushwick Open Studios, from elegant gouache depictions of domestic scenes to cheery dioramas of Sears build-your-own-home kits.

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Parsing the Real and Unreal Stories of the Zambian Space Academy

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell September 4, 2019September 3, 2019

As Nuotama Frances Bodomo’s short film Afronauts debuts online, the director discusses de-centering hero narratives and the weaponizing of reality against African stories.

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