Interview

Interview

A Comics Artist Draws the Experiences of Palestinian Refugees and Immigrants

Leila Abdelrazaq elaborates on her representation of the Palestinian diaspora and the ability for comics to convey dense issues in a more easily digestible format.

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Conjuring an Afrofuturist Classroom with Paint and Chalk

Nyame Brown has transformed the Museum of the African Diaspora into the time machine that a museum should be.

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Artist Targeted by #Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory Speaks

After being dragged into one of 2016's strangest news stories over a mural he made six years ago, Arrington de Dionyso took a public stand against far-right extremists' mob censorship.

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On Teaching Native American History Through the Smithsonian’s Presidential Portraits

The Native American performance artist DeLesslin George-Warren is giving walking tours of the National Portrait Gallery's hall of presidential portraits with a focus on the history of indigenous American populations.

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The Linguistic Overlap of Color Theory and Racism

Tomashi Jackson found that the language Josef Albers used to describe color perception mirrored the language of racialized segregation.

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An Artist Investigates the Divide Between Russian Jews and Russian Gays

Yevgeniy Fiks and Galina Zelenina discuss the LGBTQ-Jewish dynamics and politics in Russia today and throughout history.

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Beep Beep: An Interview with Brandon Brown

“The momentary eternal sounds like heaven to me.”

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While Held by US Immigration, an Artist Sketches His Fellow Detainees

Artist José Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) talks about the 30 portraits he drew while detained at the Krome Detention Center in Miami. The drawings, accompanied by each subject's story, are on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

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A Palestinian Artist Records 17 Versions of a Family Story

Inas Halabi won the AM Qattan Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year Award for her video featuring different family members telling the story of her grandfather's scar.

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Illustrating a Police Sergeant's Interrogation of a Black Boy

A new collaborative comic illustrates a leaked transcript of a Minneapolis PD sergeant's 1996 interrogation of a 14-year-old black child.

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Beer with a Painter: Alex Katz

“It’s been my most productive summer ever,” Alex Katz declares. “The real work is here, though,” he tells me, unrolling pounce paper to show me his preparatory drawings. “I want to go even bigger,” he says.

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In a Postindustrial Ruin, Suzanne Lacy Inspires a Captive Audience to Chant and Eat Together

"For me to be really interested in a work of social practice, it has to have political implications that have meaning for that community."