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JR's Digital Mural Features 1,200 San Franciscans, Telling a Story of a Diverse City
The artist says he wants the 107-feet-long mural at SFMOMA to get people to interact with one another.
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Interview
A Unique Program Pays You to Visit Museums as a Guest Critic
A conversation with Maia Chao and Josephine Devanbu, the founders of Look at Art. Get Paid., a program that pays people who wouldn’t otherwise visit art museums to visit one as guest critics of the art and the institution.
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One Museum’s Complicated Attempt to Repatriate a “Benin Bronze”
The RISD Museum has held this Benin bronze head in its collection for 80 years. "No one would have given it up unless under duress," the curators say. But tracing its provenance and repatriating it is no simple matter.
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A Biennial Navigates Indigenous Cultures Around the Globe
An interview with the Jorge Iván Cevallos (Crazy Horse), the founder, general director, and producer of the Intercontinental Biennale of the Indigenous Arts.
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The Story of a Pregnant Man, Told With Sensitivity and Respect
Director Jeanie Finlay talks about her new documentary Seahorse, in which she follows trans man Freddy McConnell through his pregnancy.
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Filmmaker Tom Kalin on What It’s Like to Fight for LGBTQ Rights for Decades
"All I felt was fear of dying," the filmmaker says of the '80s. Here he looks back on his iconic feature Swoon, working with Gran Fury and ACT UP, and his definition of activism in the Trump years.
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How Do You Build an Anti-Capitalist Streaming Site?
Nick Hayes and Naomi Burton, founders of the Detroit-based leftist media company Means Media, talk about their ambitions for Means TV, a worker-owned, completely viewer-supported streaming platform.
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An Interview With Jordan Eagles, the Artist Using Blood to Advocate for Queer Rights
Eagles has disseminated WWII propaganda posters printed in the blood of a transgender soldier to protest blood discrimination and Trump's attacks on the LGBTQ community.
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Turning Trauma Into Images of Power and Celebration
Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s photographs transform a series of traumatic events into empathetic energy. His new book, Harlem, takes that human connection further.
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At the Venice Biennale, Shu Lea Cheang Surveils the Surveillance System
In the first solo exhibition by a woman artist representing Taiwan at the Venice Biennale, Cheang questions the legal and visual regimes that have shaped sexual and gender norms over time.
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"A Constant Striving for Self-Liberation": Curator Julie Ault on Nancy Spero
At MoMA PS1, Spero’s work is presented with current political and cultural contexts in mind.
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The Spirits that Haunt the Words of Edgar Heap of Birds
Hyperallergic sat down with Edgar Heap of Birds to discuss his current exhibition at MoMA PS1.