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.
Dessane Lopez Cassell
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Artists Remind Us that Sex Work Is Work
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.