“He brings in that random, specific, accidental character of the world, and then he makes it feel like there’s some kind of order to it,” says Friedrich expert Joseph Leo Koerner.

“The best film I could make was one that only I could tell as his son,” Tadashi Nakamura told Hyperallergic about legendary director Robert Nakamura.

“When it comes to the unspeakable facts in the history of America, it's largely the artists who've been willing to show us what others would not,” the art historian said in an interview with Hyperallergic.

"I felt disavowed by the museum," the artist said of the Neue Nationalgalerie in an interview published for the first time in English in Hyperallergic.

Poet Kaveh Akbar speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist about his book of journal entries and paintings, authors who also make art, and the delight of writing fiction.

The artist tells Hyperallergic about how the isolation of COVID-19 led to a streaming series set wholly within the bounds of his studio.

Norsworthy and I sat down to discuss his recent works, which wield the Ancient Greek myth of Narcissus to examine the power of beauty, who defines it, and how we can reclaim it.

“I wanted to question power,” Shiori Ito told Hyperallergic regarding her new documentary. “The system was always the focus.

The innovative designer is the subject of a major retrospective at the School of Visual Arts and he talks about his aesthetic, the creative need for sabbaticals, and why pessimism reigns today.

What makes Stephen Morrison’s paintings of flower arrangements particularly special is that his beloved dog, Tilly, is integrated into the flowers themselves.

The Alutiiq/Sugpiaq multidisciplinary artist and choreographer communicates Indigenous movement systems and forms of knowledge through dance.

Hyperallergic speaks with Walter Cooper, who wrote the book on queer history in Santa Fe, and Christian Waguespack, who curated the show on it.

Co-directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie discuss the making of their documentary Sugarcane, told from the perspective of Indigenous survivors.

Defying scholarly conventions, Marin Kosut’s latest book takes a searingly honest look at the “impossibility of New York” and the barriers artists face.

“My question to myself was whether and how to be an ‘out Jew’,” the longtime curator told Hyperallergic in an interview.

“If I do not share the knowledge I have, it's all wasted when I'm gone,” the artist, educator, and activist told Hyperallergic.

“My desires are pretty fluid and I openly embrace the different erotic subjectivities that inhabit my brain,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic.

“For years I was an emerging artist and then it seemed like I couldn’t be called emerging anymore. Let’s hope we are all emerging, always,” the artist said.

Instead of “elder,” the 75-year-old artist, scholar, and bandleader prefers the moniker "magnificent hag."

“Art history is essentially a bunch of stories. I thought our stories should be in there and they weren’t,” the photographer told Hyperallergic in an interview.

“I'm not so interested in photography anymore,” Goldin told our senior editor. “That should be the headline,” he replied.

The artist talks about her epic drawings, her work in the AIDS activism collective Gran Fury, and why plants may hold the key to taking back our bodies.

“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.

A freewheeling interview with the 76-year-old trans activist, artist, playwright, actor, and OG gender outlaw.

Portfolios are graded on a scale of one through five — but there's nothing like public opinion to put one's skills to the test.

“That’s what traditional Navajo weaving is: an interpretation of your environment,” the Diné artist told Hyperallergic in an interview.

“I attribute what creativity I have to being gay,” explained the art historian and author in a conversation with Hyperallergic.

“The sense of freedom I felt in New York had nothing to do with the art world,” the painter told Hyperallergic.

“I want my work to have a confessional nature about my life, my identity, and who I am,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic.

“I always had the feeling that there isn't just a single thing to do,” the artist told Hyperallergic. “I enjoy mixing text and images, real life and invented scenarios.”

Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, filmmaker Yance Ford was struck by the question: “What, exactly, do the police exist to do?”

The veteran performance artist spoke with Hyperallergic about camp, queerness, anti-porn discourse, and nurturing feminist community across generations.

The artist, curator, and organizer opens up and blurs the boundaries between categories, experimenting with new spaces and methods of moving through the world.

The mainstream art world might finally be catching up with Hammond, who has been breaking barriers for more than six decades.

Brooklyn residents and best friends Stevenson Dunn Jr. and Erwin John founded the beloved gallery without any background in the arts.

From street snapshots to resplendent studio photographs, the artist draws us powerfully into her life-long project of bearing witness to her community.

“I don't think anybody believed I could be an artist,” the 82-year-old painter told Hyperallergic in an interview.

The artist speaks to Hyperallergic about founding an art space in Upstate New York and being among the first in the state to marry a same-sex partner.

The New York- and California-based artist, scholar, and mentor talks how her queerness shaped her expansive thinking and career.

Bridging art and architecture is the Lebanese-Armenian-American artist’s life’s work.

The late artist’s unusual classes and apprentice program continue to inspire a mix of play and discipline in her former students’ practices.

The exhibition Disguise the Limit highlights the many different ways Yau has worked with a wide range of visual artists over the past five decades.

Ichirō Kataoka and Kumiko Ōmori tell Hyperallergic about the modern-day conventions and challenges of the Japanese art of narrating silent films.

Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving.

Her creations have a beautiful economy, where even rusty old machine parts might become transformed into a gilded patina on one of her sensuous memory maps.

“The pieces feel like they used all of us to create themselves,” she told Hyperallergic.

The fiber artist forages local plants to create delicate urban-agrarian weavings.

The film director and New York icon discusses the trials and triumphs behind the posters featured in his Brooklyn Museum exhibition.

The artist’s recent exhibition, Fae, is like a fantasy film that asks you to stay open to the idea of magic.

"Filming in a kitchen is like working with a ballet or theater company," the filmmaker told Hyperallergic in an interview for the release of his new film Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros.