Interview
Kate Bornstein's Life Through Four Dimensions of Gender
A freewheeling interview with the 76-year-old trans activist, artist, playwright, actor, and OG gender outlaw.
Natalie Haddad
Natalie Haddad is Reviews Editor at Hyperallergic and an art writer and historian. She holds a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California San Diego and has written extensively on modern and contemporary art.
Art
Two Pioneering Photographers’ Versions of Femininity
A joint exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery makes clear the force of Francesca Woodman’s authorial voice and Julia Margaret Cameron’s radicality.
Music
Remembering Indie Rock Icon Steve Albini
Albini may be best known for his work on Nirvana’s In Utero, but it was his own bands, Big Black and Shellac, that made him a badass.
Satire
Gallery Owner “Shocked” That Showing Black Figurative Painter Didn't Solve Systemic Racism
Art dealer Gloria McWhitey said she couldn’t believe minority groups were still disenfranchised, “even after all that money we spent on our Basel booth.”
Art
Alanis Obomsawin Wants the Children to Know
At the center of the acclaimed Abenaki filmmaker’s practice is her effort to counter White, colonialist versions of history.
Art
Peter B. Jones Sculpts Truth to Power
The Onondaga artist has a propensity for cultural criticism — especially on the issues affecting Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous peoples, past and present.
Art
Lutz Bacher’s Elliptical Cosmologies
Her posthumous exhibition Aye! makes space for gaps in understanding and sonic vibrations to cultivate cosmic wonder.
Interview
The Exposed Nerves of Kim Jones’s Art
“My drawings were always kind of grim and dark, and leaning toward the nasty part of art, whatever you want to call it,” Jones explains in an interview with Hyperallergic.
Art
The Trailblazing History of an Indigenous Art Collective
Launched in 1962, the Micmac Indian Craftsmen collective designed notecards, tapestries, porcelain, and other objects that gained a worldwide audience.
Art
The Filipino-American Friends Who Forged New Artistic Paths
Once Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor recognized that they could never fully assimilate into mainstream America, they set out on their own paths.
Art
Remembering a Pioneer of Louisville’s Black Avant-Garde
When White-dominated arts institutions would not offer them opportunities, Robert L. Douglas and other Louisville Black artists organized together to create their own art communities.
Books
The Dreamlike Paths of Dialogue with a Somnambulist
The texts in Chloe Aridjis’s new collection of stories and essays unspool not via chronological order, but through the strange rationality of dreams.