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Author Archives: Dessane Lopez Cassell
Dessane Lopez Cassell is Hyperallergic's reviews editor. Outside of the office, she also works as a curator, writer, and film programmer. You can follow her work here.
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2020
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
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A Stirring Tribute Honors Voices Lost and Living with HIV/AIDS
Hear Me comes at a time when the ability to gather and grieve is as difficult as it is sorely needed. Fittingly, the NYC AIDS Memorial will debut the outdoor, touch-free installation starting December 1, for World AIDS Day.
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Join a Reading Group That Imagines a Future Beyond Gentrification
As part of her apexart exhibition, artist, activist, and curator Betty Yu will lead a discussion of works offering brilliant, accessible rebuttals to narratives of gentrification as positive or even unavoidable.
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Strategies for Embracing the Fabulously Mundane
A self-avowed pleasure activist, writer and professor Sami Schalk is building a project that revels in taking simple yet transformative steps towards feeling good, while rejecting ableist frameworks.
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Dance and Move Your Way Through Afrolatinx Music History
As part of Cyber Healing, artist Moréna Espiritual will be leading a dance workshop designed to “combat the erasure of Black history within Latinx culture.”
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A Tribute to Sylvia Rivera and the Spirit of NYC’s Old Meatpacking District
Hyperallergic has exclusive digital access to This is an Address, Sasha Wortzel’s meditative film on displacement, erasure, and queer communities along the Hudson River piers.
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A Performance Protest Against the “Petty Thuggery of Fascist Monsters”
From sunrise to sunset, the Afield will present a new multimedia performance which mines the details and redactions of the Mueller report.
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Poetry That Pulls at the Seams of Colonial Power and Memory
Enjoy a sneak peek of Perfidia, a new book from Sky Hopinka, which examines collective memory and the everyday impacts of colonial violence upon Indigenous peoples.
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Outdoor Video Art Screenings at Brooklyn Museum Offer a Break From Streaming Fare
Snuggle up (with a member of your household) on the museum’s steps and catch works by artists including Howardena Pindell, Jeffrey Gibson, and Adama Delphine Fawundu.
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Clutch Your Pearls: Ina Archer’s Cinematic Clapbacks
A razor-sharp rebuke of Hollywood’s penchant for stoking white supremacist fantasies, Osmundine (Orchid Slap) shatters any illusion that conforming to the standards of respectability will ever reward you.
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How the Invisible Power of Protocol Regulates the Day-to-day
This year’s Vera List Center Forum will turn attention to the systems, structures, and language that undergird every aspect of our lives.