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“This Is a Revolutionary Moment”: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on Intersectionality in Art
In an interview with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, s/he attempts to define intersectionality and its tenuous position in the art world.
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She Makes the Dirty Work Look Like a Degas
"I was in a coven for two years in the ‘90s. Well, everybody was in a coven in the ‘90s."
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“What Does It Mean to Be Black and Look at This?” A Scholar Reflects on the Dana Schutz Controversy
Christina Sharpe says the issue at the heart of the dispute over the Emmett Till painting is not representation so much as intimacy and our relationship to violence.
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A Moving Image Artist Finds Freedom After Abandoning the Film Industry
After her first feature screened at Sundance, Cauleen Smith lost patience with the film industry's conservatism and devoted herself to art; her work is currently in the Whitney Biennial and Migrating Forms at BAM.
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“Documentary Reporting Has Become So Rigid”: Adam Curtis on Storytelling Today
The journalist and documentary filmmaker discusses his recent film HyperNormalisation and past projects, as well as his plans to make a documentary on the West's relationship with Russia.
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"The World You’re Crafting Isn’t in a Vacuum": A Zimbabwean Comics Artist on Social Justice and Storytelling
Bill Masuku is fast becoming one of the most well-known comic artists in Zimbabwe.
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Beer with a Painter: Jennifer Coates
Coates’s recent work depicts food: spaghetti and meatballs, sprinkle cookies, and s’mores. Her work is about matter and viscosity, but it is also rooted in grid-like structures, repetitive mark-making, and very sophisticated paint handling.
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Goodbye to All That: Why Do Artists Reject the Art World?
Martin Herbert’s latest book is a collection of essays about 10 artists who play with the system, struggle against it, or walk away altogether.
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The Artist Who Put Kellyanne Conway in an Andrew Wyeth Painting
Some images just work, and you can definitely say that about Tim O'Brien's update of Andrew Wyeth's famous painting.
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“Everything I Do Has the Smell of Digital”: Lorna Mills on Her Art
The Canadian artist Lorna Mills talks about image circulation, digital ownership, and how she obsessively mines the internet for her art.
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The Queer Art that Helped Define Post-Blackness
In his collection of essays, Derek Conrad Murray explores questions of post-blackness by drawing on the artworks of Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, and Kalup Linzy.
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Collector Valeria Napoleone on the Need to Support Women Artists
On the occasion of publicly showing her private collection of work by women artists, Valeria Napoleone talks about why such a display is necessary.