Queer Elders
Rosalie Favell and the Search for Herself
“I came out as a lesbian before I came out as an Indigenous woman,” the Métis artist told Hyperallergic.
Interview
Interview
Claire Valdez Wants to Be Your Artist in Congress
The New York State assemblywoman, who is running for a seat in the House of Representatives, spoke with Hyperallergic about her life as a painter, political origin story, and big plans for Washington.
Queer Elders
Sarah Schulman’s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction
“Nothing stops me except the publishing industry,” quipped the novelist and AIDS historian, who cut her teeth as an East Village journalist writing for queer and feminist papers.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Samia Halaby
At her longtime studio in Tribeca, the Palestinian-American painter discussed her experimentation with color and how she “accidentally stepped into abstraction.”
Interview
What Carmen Maria Machado Wants You to Know About Power
The author and memoirist spoke to Hyperallergic about curating the work of Cuban painter Rocío García, whose characters linger in the space where power and pleasure meet.
Queer Elders
Jamie Nares’s Enduring Romance With the Brushstroke
The New York-based painter and filmmaker speaks to Hyperallergic about finding the essence of things.
Interview
Khaled Sabsabi’s Art of Collective Becoming
“I believe in the fact that the people hold the power,” the Lebanese-born representing artist of the Australian pavilion told Hyperallergic.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Keith Mayerson
“I wanted to rip the mask off the signifier and just deal with the signified,” said the cartoonist-turned-painter who depicts a cosmology of American identity and activism.
Interview
Rosy Simas on Creating a Space for Peace in Minneapolis
Hyperallergic sat down with the Minnesota-based Seneca artist to discuss her exhibition at the Walker Art Center.
Feature
At 90, Printmaker Mohammad Omer Khalil Gets His Due
The New York-based Sudanese artist looks back on a lifetime of experimentation in a multi-city retrospective.
Interview
Tania Bruguera on Why Today’s Art Must Be Political
Ahead of her performance “Tatlin’s Whisper #6” in Times Square, the artist and activist talks to Hyperallergic about free speech in times of rising authoritarianism.
Interview
Tania El Khoury’s Soothing “Revenge Art”
The Lebanese artist and Bard College professor spoke with Hyperallergic about her recent projects and precarious life under bombardment in Beirut.