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Interviews
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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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Philip Yenawine’s Transformative Teaching
“I attribute what creativity I have to being gay,” explained the art historian and author in a conversation with Hyperallergic.
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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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Joey Terrill’s Windows Into Queer Chicano Life
“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.
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Su Friedrich’s Life in Moving Images
“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.”
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Power Traces the History of Policing in the US
Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, filmmaker Yance Ford was struck by the question: “What, exactly, do the police exist to do?”
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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.
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Paul Wong Is Queering Chinatown
The artist, curator, and organizer opens up and blurs the boundaries between categories, experimenting with new spaces and methods of moving through the world.
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Harmony Hammond’s Ongoing Revolution
The mainstream art world might finally be catching up with Hammond, who has been breaking barriers for more than six decades.
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The Unlikely Story of Brooklyn’s Bishop Gallery
Brooklyn residents and best friends Stevenson Dunn Jr. and Erwin John founded the beloved gallery without any background in the arts.
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Catherine Opie’s Unrelenting Fight for Visibility
From street snapshots to resplendent studio photographs, the artist draws us powerfully into her life-long project of bearing witness to her community.