The artist sits down with Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian and critic John Yau to discuss his work, which brings together Guston’s notorious KKK figures with his own host of comic characters to confront white supremacy.
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Five Hyperallergic Podcast Episodes to Round Out 2024
Listen to conversations with feminist legends Lucy Lippard and Joyce Kozloff, the artist who was detained for 15 years at Guantánamo Bay without charges, and others.
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Joyce Kozloff’s Patterns of Resistance
The feminist artist reflects on her work in the groundbreaking Pattern and Decoration Movement, her grand public artwork, and continued political activism against war and misogyny.
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Karen Wilkin: Critiquing the New Masters
Hyperallergic’s Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian sits down to reconnect with his college professor, a master of art writing and curation who introduced him to criticism.
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Guantánamo Bay and the Art of Resistance
We hear from Erin L. Thompson, Molly Crabapple, and Mansoor Adayfi, who was detained without charge at the military prison for almost 15 years, on how art is a lifeline for those incarcerated there.
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Lucy Lippard’s Life on the Frontlines of Art
In a rare recorded interview, the feminist writer, critic, and activist tells us what took her from seeing 30 shows a week in New York City to small-town New Mexico.
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Robber Barons, Marcel Duchamp, and Big Museums’ Dirty Little Secrets
Hrag Vartanian and author Eunsong Kim discuss the hidden power imbalances behind some of the most prominent pieces of 20th-century conceptual art.
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Skeleton Deities and Political Mind Games at the Venice Biennale
Hrag Vartanian and AX Mina discuss what worked, what didn’t, and what drew political protests at the “Olympics of the art world.”
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Shelley Niro on Her Life in Art
The Mohawk artist talks about her birthplace of Niagara Falls, growing up on the Six Nations of the Grand River, and disrupting stereotypes with work that ranges from beading to filmmaking.
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How Lee Quiñones Took His Graffiti From the Subway to the Museum
A pioneer of the 1970s New York City graffiti movement, the artist reflects on five decades of experimentation with spray cans and paint brushes.
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From Blog to Book
Three of Hyperallergic’s writers talk about the journeys that took them from writing blog posts to publishing full-length books on the politics of memes, the battles over America’s monuments, and forgotten World War II heroes.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The Story of One of the Few Artists at the Stonewall Uprising
From his fourth-floor Hell’s Kitchen walk-up, the artist talks Catholic icons, tin foil, and memories of fires raging outside the treasured safe space for the queer community in 1960s New York City.