Artist Deborah Kass’s “OY/YO” (2015) is a Brooklyn favorite, and now the eight-foot-tall public artwork is landing in front of the Brooklyn Museum. We ask her what the work is really about.
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How the #MeToo Movement Is Transforming the Performing Arts
This month’s American Theatre magazine is full of stories of sexual assault in the performing arts. We talk to Senior Editor Diep Tran about the impact of #MeToo on the theatre scene.
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What Does a Black Radical Art Education Look Like?
The Black School talks to Hyperallergic about the role of radical Black education and the “Black art world,” in a special interview that comes on the heels of their residency and exhibition at New York’s New Museum.
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What the Hell Are McMansions and Why Do They Exist?
McMansions are the houses many of us love to hate, and we invited Kate Wagner, aka McMansion Hell, to talk oversized buildings of wealth and status and what they all mean.
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The Rebel Women of 19th-Century New York
A new exhibition explores the “Rebel Women” of 19th-century New York, and we talk to curator Marcela Micucci to discover the stories of these largely forgotten figures.
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Is the Art World Ready for the Sanctuary Movement?
As New York cultural leaders listen to the concerns of immigrant communities, we talk about the challenges of immigrant advocacy in the art world, and then Zachary Small interviews Emma Sulkowicz about the #MeToo movement.
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Who Was Artist David Wojnarowicz? We Find Out
After two actions led by ACT UP activists encouraged the Whitney Museum to change a wall label, we went looking for people who could tell us who Wojnarowicz was and help us decipher his complex life and art.
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The State of the Union at the Museum of Modern Art
Members of MoMA’s biggest union have been working over 80 days without a contract, and we ask them to explain what’s going on.
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Hearing from the Artist Behind Anonymous Was a Woman
We talk to Susan Unterberg, the person behind the Anonymous Was a Woman foundation that gives $25,000 — no strings attached — to female artists over 40 and then we discuss a boxing exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum.
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How Contemporary Female Artists Are Grappling with Sexual Violence in Their Work
Curator Monika Fabijanska talks about her exhibition The Un-Heroic Act, and arts journalist Barbara Pollack chats about her new book on an emerging generation of Chinese contemporary artists.
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Announcing Hyperallergic’s New Weekly Podcast, Art Movements
Our new podcast is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.
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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker on the Power of Art, Inequality, and Detroit
Under the leadership of Darren Walker, the Ford Foundation is challenging traditional ideas of what a major foundations should and can fund.