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A Diné Weaver’s Revolutionary Looms
DY Begay, best known for her abstract textiles featuring undulating bands of color, speaks about her decades-long practice of experimenting with pigment and form.
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Take a Musical Trip Through Sixties Surrealism
Curator Dan Nadel talks about creating a playlist for the Whitney Museum's latest exhibition, inspired by a time when history was inextricable from its soundtrack.
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Larry Bell’s Art Through the Looking Glass
The pioneering Light and Space artist spoke with Hyperallergic ahead of the unveiling his largest public art project to date.
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Alison Saar’s Artistic Revolution
The artist talks to Hyperallergic about being raised by strong Black women, creating with abandon, and the full-circle significance of receiving the David C. Driskell Prize.
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Arewà Basit on Her Amy Sherald Portrait and Alchemizing Trans Joy
“How people are perceiving me is not my business,” the performance artist and model told Hyperallergic. “What I can do to make the world a better place is my business.”
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Photographs That Depict Alzheimer's With Dignity
Alicia Vera documents and processes her mother’s disease diagnosis in a new book.
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The Artist Freeing Museums’ Captive Instruments
In an interview with Hyperallergic, Satch Hoyt shared his process of "un-muting" African musical objects long relegated to storage.
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A Photographer Brings New York City’s Water System to the Surface
Stanley Greenberg has spent decades answering the question of how water arrives in our taps and building interest in this vast and impressive system.
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Tamara Lanier on Her Historic Victory Against Harvard University
In the aftermath of the school’s agreement to relinquish the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors, Lanier spoke to Hyperallergic about her protracted battle for justice and a new home for the photographs.
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The Diné Weaver Who Turns Microchips Into Art
Marilou Schultz, a math teacher and fourth-generation weaver, pushes the boundaries of the art form by combining technological aesthetics and Diné techniques.
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Isaac Julien Returns to the Cutting Room Floor of History
“I want to call attention to how you look,” the artist known for his multi-channel film installations says of I Dream a World, his first US museum survey to date.
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Aline Manoukian and the Specter of War Photography
The Lebanese photojournalist who famously portrayed a Palestinian militiaman holding a kitten discusses her transition into photo editing and the image that changed her life.