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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.
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In TM Davy's Art, Faeries Have Their Day
The artist’s recent exhibition, Fae, is like a fantasy film that asks you to stay open to the idea of magic.
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Frederick Wiseman’s Bucket List Included Making a Restaurant Doc
"Filming in a kitchen is like working with a ballet or theater company," the filmmaker told Hyperallergic in an interview for the release of his new film Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros.
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The Exposed Nerves of Kim Jones’s Art
“My drawings were always kind of grim and dark, and leaning toward the nasty part of art, whatever you want to call it,” Jones explains in an interview with Hyperallergic.
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The TikTok Creator Making Nostalgia Cool
Fungkiigrrl’s absurd, retrofuturist TikToks connect us to places and things we know we can never experience again.
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Remedios Varo’s Strange and Mysterious Universes
“In Varo’s work there is often a sense of geographic travel, but also a sense of traveling down material pathways that no one has ever looked at before,” says curator Caitlin Haskell.
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Chilean Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán Talks Exile, Trauma, and Revolution
Guzmán sits with Hyperallergic for a conversation about the lost promise of Salvador Allende’s presidency, enduring personal and collective trauma, and the continued possibility for a new revolution.