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Hannah Knox: Form Follows Fabric
LONDON — It seems bereavement can lead to a certain minimalism. “If you take everything away and then what are you left with?” asks Hannah Knox.
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Beer with a Painter: Sarah Lutz
While on Cape Cod this summer, I visited the painter Sarah Lutz in her home high above the bay.
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Why the Bushwick Film Festival Is Different
It's hard to believe that the Bushwick Film Festival is six years old, but co-founder Kweighbaye Kotee explains that it has slowly grown to a festival that will be screening 4 feature films and 10 short films, hosting 4 panels, an art show, a live-taping for a television show, and an award ceremony
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The Digital Literacy of Tristan Perich's Sound
HANOVER, New Hampshire — When Tristan Perich, creator of the "Microtonal Wall" for the Museum of Modern Art's Soundings exhibition, told me that understanding computer languages was now practically “a prerequisite for living,” two things came to mind.
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Divya Mehra's Tragicomedy of Failure
Divya Mehra and I met briefly, almost in passing at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada a couple years back. In what seemed moments we were arguing about the role artists have in society, and the problems and difficulties of institutional support. This quickly led to a deep respect for Divya and her
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Against Ethno-Kitsch: Trance Music in a Broken System
CHICAGO — "I'm pretty opinionated about music," says artist/musician Arrington de Dionysio, whose creative work has taken him to Indonesia and back. "I'm not interested in sampling 'a little bit of this, a little bit of that' for its own sake alone, the results are usually boring and insincere, a ki
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A Blasted-Out Planetarium Nirvana
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Filmmaker Julie Nymann and composer Ricardo Donoso, along with curator Alexis Avedisian, have collaborated on a video project for the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science in Boston.
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How Art Is Helping Children in One Syrian Refugee Camp
Hyperallergic speaks with UNICEF Jordan's Deputy Representative Michele Servadei to delve into the question of child programming at Za'atari, both in the arts and education more generally. Accompanying her answers below are photographs of artworks produced by Syrian children aged 12-18 at the camp,
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Searching for the Switzerland of India
NASHVILLE — Photographer and video artist Christine Rogers didn't intend to end up in India on a Fulbright Scholarship searching for a folkloric "heaven on earth" known as the Switzerland of India.
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Queer Freakazoid Liberator Goddess: Dionysus for the 21st Century
You’ve probably heard of Dionysus, an Olympian god with a reputation for being a badass. What you didn’t know about him, however, is that he’s also your new androgynous goddess, ready to liberate all who grace his presence through the power of dance, ritual, magic, and music. When I happened upon Za
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On Photographing the Women of Gaza
CHICAGO — I didn't come across Tanya Habjouqa's photo series Women of Gaza underneath a sensationalized article headline about the Middle East. A friend posted one of her photos to my wall because it looked like a woman in a hijab shooting a selfie.
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Toward a New Queer Theology
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — With his wild-man beard, piratical silver earrings, heavy-rimmed specs and abiding interest in the occult, it wasn’t clear just how an unscheduled interview with sexagenarian AA Bronson would unfold.