Interview
Katherine Bradford Is Just Getting Started
“I don't think anybody believed I could be an artist,” the 82-year-old painter told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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Linda Mussmann Prefers the Hard Work to the Parade
The artist speaks to Hyperallergic about founding an art space in Upstate New York and being among the first in the state to marry a same-sex partner.
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Carol Ockman Is Proudly Different
The New York- and California-based artist, scholar, and mentor talks how her queerness shaped her expansive thinking and career.
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The Diasporic Imagination of Nishan Kazazian
Bridging art and architecture is the Lebanese-Armenian-American artist’s life’s work.
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Artists Remember the Transformative Teachings of Toshiko Takaezu
The late artist’s unusual classes and apprentice program continue to inspire a mix of play and discipline in her former students’ practices.
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John Yau Talks About the Art of Collaboration
The exhibition Disguise the Limit highlights the many different ways Yau has worked with a wide range of visual artists over the past five decades.
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Benshi Performers Pass Along a Way of Thinking
Ichirō Kataoka and Kumiko Ōmori tell Hyperallergic about the modern-day conventions and challenges of the Japanese art of narrating silent films.
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Sam Dienst Weaves the Everyday Into Rich Tapestries
Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving.
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At Age 81, Carole Harris Is Embracing Imperfection
Her creations have a beautiful economy, where even rusty old machine parts might become transformed into a gilded patina on one of her sensuous memory maps.
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Rose B. Simpson’s Antidote to “Postcolonial Stress Disorder”
“The pieces feel like they used all of us to create themselves,” she told Hyperallergic.
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Kayla Powers Weaves Sensory Maps of Detroit
The fiber artist forages local plants to create delicate urban-agrarian weavings.
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Spike Lee on His Collection of WWII Propaganda Posters
The film director and New York icon discusses the trials and triumphs behind the posters featured in his Brooklyn Museum exhibition.