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The Largely Unknown History of Blackface in Canada
Here's how Toronto's Gardiner Museum is using a figurine in its collection to peel back the layers of violently racialized imagery in Canada.
Shary Boyle's Exploration of the Fantastic and Political Lives of Clay
As ceramic becomes a more common material in contemporary art, artists like Shary Boyle are challenging the history of a medium that has too often been associated with...
Kent Monkman’s Mission to Decenter the Colonial Museum
Leading contemporary artist Kent Monkman discusses how museums have influenced his life and his art, and what he is doing to help change them to tell a fuller picture ...
The Unapologetic Queerness of Nayland Blake
This Pride Month, it’s important to remember the artists who invite their queerness into every aspect of their life, work, and art, like Nayland Blake.
Talking Digital Colonialism with Morehshin Allahyari
In her new performance lecture title "Physical Tactics for Digital Colonialism," Allahyari explores what it means for data to be colonized.
Decolonizing the Color of Queerness
Artist Cristina Pitter helps us open Pride Month with a paean from her performance piece, Decolonizing the Color of Queerness
Discussing the Future of Design and Tech with Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator at MoMA
Antonelli shares her thoughts on the world of tech, design, and the work of a beloved arts organization that is celebrating 20 years, Eyebeam.
The Los Angeles Art Landscape, Through the Lens of Our Writers
Hyperallergic’s Los Angeles senior editor, Elisa Wouk Almino, chats with three contributors about their versions of the ever-evolving LA art scene.
Michael Rakowitz Discusses Withdrawing from the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and His Leonard Cohen Problem
The artist shares his thoughts on museums, power, art, and ideology.
What Should Artists Do With Their Work After They Die?
I talk to two artist estate experts who share their thoughts on what needs to be done when an artist dies.
Tapping into the Art World's Potential to Making Us Feel Empowered
A new event is working to demystify the art industry, while empowering artists and art professionals through deep conversation and myth-busting workshops.
An Artist Works to Break Down the Walls Between a College and Its Community
What does it mean for an artist to be invited into an institution of higher learning to engage in conversations about safety, community, and change?
A Museum Hires a Full-time Therapist
Is a museum visit just what the doctor ordered? In Montreal, medical professionals can prescribe you a museum visit to see the only full-time art therapist working in ...
Discussing Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
In a region often overlooked on the maps of modern art lovers, one man has made it his mission to inform the world.
Traveling Through the Uyghur Homeland with Lisa Ross
For 17 years, artist Lisa Ross has been documenting the lands of Western China that are home to Uyghurs, a population that is threatened today by the Chinese authorities.
Hyperallergic Editors Reflect on Warhol’s Superbowl Commercial, MoMA Expansion, and More
This week was a snowy one in Brooklyn, so Hyperallergic editors decided to gather and chat about some of the stories we've been reporting about.
Discussing the Sculptures of Richard Serra with Hal Foster
A new book of conversations between the noted artist and art historian captures a complex body of work that continues to challenge the conventions of sculpture.
The Political Life of Memes with An Xiao Mina
Memes are increasingly part of protest movements, but how do we understand their role and purpose? A new book helps us figure it out.
Lowery Stokes Sims and Chloë Bass Talk Empathy, Art, and Education
What does it mean to have empathy? How do we navigate difference? Can contemporary art contribute to our understanding of all this?
Didier William on Painting a Revolution
In his large two-part exhibition, the queer Haitian-American artist centers the body, which figures in his work both literally and figuratively.
Antwaun Sargent on Black Contemporary Art
From social media to mainstream publications, Sir Sargent (as he is know online) is dedicating himself to ensuring that Black voices in the art world are heard.
Carleton Watkins and Photography’s Romance with the American West
How do you tell the story of an artist whose archive was destroyed? Tyler Green’s new book focuses on a major figure in the early history of photography.
The Book Object as Exhibition, an Interview with Dayanita Singh
We talk to Singh her discontent with photography that simply exist on the walls of art galleries and museums, and why she prefers to create objects that she conceives ...
The Artist as Lawyer, an Interview with Sergio Sarmiento about Art Law
Sergio Sarmiento went to law school as an art project, but now he is an authority on the burgeoning field of art law. We talk copyright, contracts, Richard Prince, Sam...
Linda Nochlin Explores the Role of Women in the Arts in a Previously Unaired Interview
In this extensive interview from a year before groundbreaking feminist art history Nochlin passed away, we talk to her about women in the art world, particularly in th...
YO, Deborah Kass!
Artist Deborah Kass’s “OY/YO” (2015) is a Brooklyn favorite, and now the eight-foot tall public art work is landing in front of the Brooklyn Museum, and we ask her wha...
How the #MeToo Movement Has Impacted the Performing Arts
This month's American Theatre magazine is full of stories of sexual assault in the performing arts. We talk to Senior Editor Diep Tran about the impact of #MeToo on th...
What Does a Black Radical Art Education Look Like?
The Black School talks to Hyperallergic about the role of radical Black education and the "Black art world," in a special interview that comes on the heels of their re...
What the Hell Are McMansions and Why Do They Exist?
McMansions are the houses many of us love to hate, and we invited Kate Wagner, aka McMansion Hell, to talk oversized buildings of wealth and status and what they all m...
The Rebel Women of 19th-Century New York
A new exhibition explores the “Rebel Women” of 19th-century New York, and we talk to curator Marcela Micucci to discover the stories of these largely forgotten figures...
