The acclaimed composer and noise artist talks to Hyperallergic about his Pulitzer Prize-winning composition “Voiceless Mass.”
Interviews
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Beer With a Painter: John Lees
Despite the fact that Lees works on paintings for as long as 30 years, they don’t appear overly precious. Instead, they seem human and vulnerable.
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NYC Art Teachers Fight for Better Working Conditions
We spoke with three public school art teachers from the Movement of Rank-and-File Educators (MORE) on their efforts to reform New York’s largest teachers’ union.
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Filmmaker dream hampton Culls Memories From Detroit’s Flooded Basements
Her short film Freshwater is now playing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
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Documentary Workers Unite Against the Odds
We spoke with workers at the International Documentary Association about their successful fight for a union.
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Prismatic Ground Tries to Change the Conversation on Experimental Documentary
Film programmer Inney Prakash talks to Hyperallergic about what it takes to start a new film festival solo during a pandemic.
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The Fake Town Where Police Trained to Suppress Protests
Hyperallergic talks to director Sierra Pettengill about her documentary Riotsville, USA, which finds the roots of modern policing techniques in the 1960s
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This Group Is Helping Museum Workers in Ukraine
The founders of Museum Crisis Center discuss what they are doing to help museum staff and save Ukraine’s cultural heritage.
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Presence and Absence in Virtual Reality Storytelling
Charlie Shackleton talks to Hyperallergic about his performance piece As Mine Exactly and the challenges of virtual reality filmmaking.
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Lynching Postcards Explores a Dark Corner of US History
Director Christine Turner explains to Hyperallergic how her documentary short interrogates the white gaze and seeks to reaffirm some ugly truths about the past.
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‘You Should Feel Disturbed’ — Talking to the Directors of Attica
In the wake of the film’s nomination for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry speak to Hyperallergic about the uprising’s ongoing relevance.
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The Gift of Humanity in Bessie Harvey’s Art, an Interview With Faye Harvey Dean
The collective wisdom that she acquired through the diasporic Black American experience of womanhood allowed her to recall her value and humanity, which she poured into her art.