Since 2009, Hyperallergic has published tens of thousands of articles about art. But who are the writers behind these posts? And what drives them to write about art of all things?Many of the authors who have passed through our virtual hallways

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The Story of One of the Few Artists at the Stonewall Uprising

Mar 21st, 2024 1h 30m

We are thrilled to be back with a new episode of the Hyperallergic podcast. For our one hundredth episode, we spoke with legendary collage and mixed media artist Tommy Lannigan-Schmidt. His works, made from crinkly saran wrap and tin foil, emul

The Cartoonist the US Right-Wing Political Establishment Loves to Hate

May 6th, 2022 1h 13m

If you’ve been online, and especially on Twitter, then you probably know the name Eli Valley and his brushy drawings that use the grotesque and absurd to make larger points about life, culture, and politics. But it wasn’t until the Trump admini

Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin Discuss Digital Combines

Apr 29th, 2022 1h 19m

Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin have been at the leading edge of digitally informed contemporary art that explores the boundaries of programming, digital aesthetics, and the handmade. Their work is certainly unique, but they also share so

Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin Discuss Digital Combines

Apr 29th, 2022 1h 19m

Tamara Lanier's Fight for the Photographs of Her Enslaved Ancestors at Harvard

Apr 21st, 2022 56m 23s

Last year, we published a dossier of statements by leading scholars supporting the fight of Tamara Lanier to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her ancestors from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. Lanier, who lives in Norwich, Connecticut, h

Understanding Why a Harvard Museum Will Return Standing Bear’s Tomahawk

Jul 21st, 2021 23m 38s

Something incredible happened a few months ago. After Oklahoma lawyer Brett Chapman (Pawnee) started tweeting about the tomahawk of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, which is currently in Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnolog

Audrey Flack and the Last of the New York School

Jul 16th, 2021 1h 36m

A painter who may be best known for her contribution to the Photorealism movement, Audrey Flack has been a working artist for roughly 70 years. Now at age 90, Flack reflects on the art world, from her days as part of the New York School of arti

Collector Tim Kang Talks About His Love of NFTs

May 31st, 2021 52m 44s

Tim Kang started his career as a software engineer for Deutsche Bank and invested a year of savings in Ethereum in early 2016, and let’s just say it’s paying off. The North Carolina native, who is known online as “illestrater,” is now a digital

Creative Time’s Diya Vij Helps Launch an Art World Think Tank

May 11th, 2021 43m 39s

Diya Vij started her new job as Associate Curator of Creative Time just last fall, in the midst of the pandemic. She has since announced the first Creative Time Think Tank cohort, which includes La Tanya S. Autry, Caitlin Cherry, Sonia Guiñansa

After Decades of Selling New Media Art, Gallerist Steven Sacks Offers His Take on NFTs

Mar 30th, 2021 49m 26s

Since 2001, Bitforms gallerist Steven Sacks has been exhibiting and selling digital art (though he hates that term) and building an audience and support network for artists working with new media.After Sara Ludy, one of the artists Bitforms reg

Lindsay Howard Talks About the Burgeoning Market for NFTs

Mar 9th, 2021 52m 40s

Lindsay Howard is the head of community at the Foundation, one of the new platforms that have been part of the current wave of NFT art. She joined me in our Brooklyn studio to discuss the audience for crypto art and the collectors eager to fork

The World of NFTs, Explained by Digital Artist Addie Wagenknecht

Mar 2nd, 2021 48m 29s

Contemporary artist Addie Wagenknecht is a veteran of the blockchain space — as much of a seasoned pro as one can be in a field that’s only a decade old. She’s been observing the gold rush over NFTs in the last few weeks and agreed to join me o

A Photographer Documents Post-war Artsakh

Feb 27th, 2021 1h 9m

Photographer Scout Tufankjian was glued to her screens like Armenians around the world following news of developments in Artsakh. After the ceasefire was announced, she decided to rush to the region, which she's visited numerous times before, t

MoMA’s Leon Black Problem and Cuban Artists Under Siege

Feb 8th, 2021 26m

This week’s headlines were dominated by news that the Museum of Modern Art will not remove billionaire Leon Black from their board. Hyperallergic’s Jasmine Weber and Valentina Di Liscia join me to talk about it along with PEN America’s new hand

The Biggest Art Stories of the Month, From Bernie Memes to the Vessel Shutdown

Jan 29th, 2021 39m 45s

It’s been a non-stop news cycle since last November’s election, and Hyperallergic’s news team has been on it. Join us and listen to the team’s thoughts on the stories we've been reporting on.For this episode, we gather to discuss the stories th

From Graffiti to the Gallery, Futura Talks About Art

Dec 18th, 2020 1h 4m

Born Leonard McGure, Futura made his reputation spray painting subway trains in New York City in the 1970s as “Futura 2000” — the number was dropped in 1999. He would go on to be part of the booming graffiti and street art movement in the 1980s

Artist Shahzia Sikander Is Ready for a New Post-Pandemic Reality

Dec 16th, 2020 1h 1m

Since she first emerged into the spotlight in the 1990s, artist Shahzia Sikander has forged her own path with artworks that meld traditional manuscript illumination and calligraphy techniques with visual innovations that seem to transform into

John Yau, Jillian Steinhauer, and Others at Hyperallergic's First-ever Public Reading

Nov 27th, 2020 1h 13m

On Tuesday, June 23, 2015, Hyperallergic hosted our first-ever live reading event, which took place at Housing Works Bookstore and Cafe in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. Hyperallergic Weekend Editors John Yau and Albert Mobilio read their poetr

On Election Day, Reflecting on Months of Political Arts Reporting

Nov 3rd, 2020 25m 59s

We can’t believe it’s been four years since the 2016 US Election, and here we are again. I’m joined this episode by the Hyperallergic news team — news editor Jasmine Weber, and reporters Valentina Di Liscia and Hakim Bishara — to discuss the st

Where Did the Deepfakes Go?

Oct 25th, 2020 40m 26s

For months, media specialists, pundits, and analysts were warning us to brace for an onslaught of memes and other forms of propaganda that would flood our feeds this US election season. While there certainly have been a comparable amount of mem

Sam Durant Revisits the “Scaffold” Controversy Three Years Later

Oct 23rd, 2020 34m 43s

A few weeks ago, artist Sam Durant released a long essay about his work, "Scaffold," which reflects on the project that dominated art world headlines. Originally commissioned for documenta (13) — the influential quinquennial exhibition in Kasse

National Gallery of Art Director Discusses the Decision to Delay the Philip Guston Exhibition

Oct 2nd, 2020 25m 6s

Last week, the New York Times reported that the National Gallery of Art's Philip Guston retrospective, expected to travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tate Modern in London, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, would be delayed by four year

Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon on Working to Decolonize the Art World (Part 2)

Sep 25th, 2020 1h 21m

I’ve been wanting to do a major interview with Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon for years. As the duo behind MTL+ Collective and organizers with Decolonize This Place, FTP, Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (GULF), and other groups through the years, th