An eternal fall permeates most of the artist’s landscapes, in which gloomy and Gothic towns are shot through with a sense of impending doom.
Elaine Velie
Elaine Velie is a writer from New Hampshire living in Brooklyn. She studied Art History and Russian at Middlebury College and is interested in art's role in history, culture, and politics.
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What’s the Difference Between Private and Public Museums?
The answer to this seemingly straightforward question reveals a few common misconceptions about our nation’s institutions.
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Ari Moore’s Long Road From Police Officer to Buffalo Trans Icon
“If I do not share the knowledge I have, it’s all wasted when I’m gone,” the artist, educator, and activist told Hyperallergic.
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Required Reading
This week: curation and BDSM, America’s first lesbian magazine, myths about the human brain, and is smutty literature hurting our romantic relationships?
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The Badass Punk Life of Kay Turner
Instead of “elder,” the 75-year-old artist, scholar, and bandleader prefers the moniker “magnificent hag.”
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Required Reading
This week, Miss Piggy’s mom, American fiction’s fatphobia problem, the shady underbelly of glass-eel fishing, Chappell Roan, and what did Old English sound like?
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Lola Flash Has Got Some Stories to Tell
“For years, I didn’t want acceptance from the art world. I wanted the opposite, to be honest,” the photographer told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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New Mosaics Arrive at Metropolitan-Lorimer Subway Stop
Local artists Jackie Chang and Chloë Bass created two multi-panel series, now on view at the Brooklyn station.
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Weaver Roy Kady Is a Shepherd First
“That’s what traditional Navajo weaving is: an interpretation of your environment,” the Diné artist told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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Jimmy Wright’s Hymns to Queer Nightlife
“The sense of freedom I felt in New York had nothing to do with the art world,” the painter told Hyperallergic.
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Required Reading
This week, illicit antiquity trading, Harlem Renaissance patrons and whiteness, a new biography of Joni Mitchell, Diane Keaton season, and much more.
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Holly Hughes’s Politics of Pleasure
The veteran performance artist spoke with Hyperallergic about camp, queerness, anti-porn discourse, and nurturing feminist community across generations.