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How Ashley O’Shay Uplifts Black Female Activists Without Deifying Them
The filmmaker tells Hyperallergic how she spent over four years within Chicago’s movement for Black lives making the documentary Unapologetic.
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Beer With a Painter: Clare Grill
“If a painting doesn’t have the right seasoning, it has to wait.”
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Beth B on No Wave, Lydia Lunch, and “Speaking the Unspeakable”
“You don’t need corporate validation or Hollywood validation to do something,” the pioneering No Wave filmmaker explains.
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Laura Raicovich on How to Make Museums “Better for More People”
Hyperallergic talks to the curator, writer, and former museum director about her new book Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.
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Theo Anthony on How the History of Cinema Led to the Modern Surveillance State
The filmmaker talks to Hyperallergic about his documentary All Light, Everywhere and incorporating theory into his practice.
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An Intimate Look at James Baldwin and His Rarely Discussed Suicide Attempts
Harmony Holiday wants to show “the Baldwin who was baffled and befuddled and wounded and perfectly real.”
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Jia Zhangke Talks About His Quest to Document a Rapidly Disappearing China
Hyperallergic interviews Jia about Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue and finding people to testify about their experiences in rural villages over the past seven decades.
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Gazan Artist Speaks About a Lifetime of Trauma and War
“We live in constant fear of censorship. No artist should have that fear,” says 21-year-old artist Malak Mattar.
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Deborah Roberts’s Intricate and Thoughtful Depictions of Black Childhood
“There’s a lot here to unpack if you’re willing to do the work,” says Roberts.
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On Feminist Indexes: An Interview with Cait McKinney and Mindy Seu
The Lambda Literary Award Finalist and Cyberfeminism Index designer discuss the need to “troll these progress stories that we tell about computers.”
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Thinking About the Intersection Between Human Rights and the Arts
“We want to look at a community level that’s rarely taken seriously in academia or in the art world.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“This past year has compelled me to look closer, and to look for that which I don’t know how to look for.”