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“The work is a gateway, one that bridges extracted projections of African aesthetic realities by refocusing upon the origins of Black exterior expression. Those spaces—just like bodies—hold stories, memories, and dreams. The transformation of this pavilion foreshadowed how this experience would find me in a house of discourses. But this time, there could be a more nuanced conversation about the interiority of Black female consciousness.”

Remote Access parties and Levani’s 127.1 BPM represent new, expansive ideas of the commons where queer, trans, immigrant, and disabled communities have gathered, and will gather, transgressively.

Dinah Ryan explores the functions and possibilities of humor and its intersections with power, pain, vulnerability, and humanity.

In Part One of this two-part conversation, Will Corwin and Karen Holmberg discuss her fascination with volcanoes, her discovery of mysterious “spider vulva” petroglyphs, and consider whether these images can still speak to us.

In Part Two of this two-part conversation, Karen Holmberg discusses the seemingly intractable problem of convincing people that they are in danger, or helping them to see that the world is changing around them and encouraging them to mitigate, or prepare for, those changes.

Daniel Keller in conversation with Femke Herregraven.

Songs excerpted from Aimé Césaire’s “A Tempest” accompany a poetic essay accompanying recent works exhibited in artist Hayley Silverman’s “Unmanned Lander.”

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Mildred Thompson in conversation with Lois Maliou Jones for ART PAPERS September/October 1991.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Mildred Thompson in conversation with Helmut Middendorf for ART PAPERS March/April 1990.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Mildred Thompson in conversation with Meredith Monk and Nurit Tilles for ART PAPERS September/October 1988.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Mildred Thompson in conversation with Valerie Maynard for ART PAPERS July/August 1990.

In 2019, women protagonists become the avengers for systemic violence.

In “Training in Suspense,” Courtney McClellan questions the implication of veracity in the recent spate of politician-penned political thrillers by way of Stacey Abrams’ new novel, While Justice Sleeps.

On the racialized history of truth, fiction, and hoax.

Will Corwin interviews Mark Thomas Gibson about Honoré Daumier’s influence on Gibson’s works of political satire, keeping momentum after a political win, and the challenges of building upon a broken foundation.