Month: March 2019
Manifesta 12
St. Louis: Navigating the Brick City
The urban landscape can be seen as a transcription of a city’s history. In St. Louis, the construction and destruction of brick buildings reveal a racialized history of segregation and inequality.
The Universe Flickers
“How do you create a record or generate matter in transitory times when the very limits of language, registers, and representation of truth are severely tested?”
Out of Beirut
I never made it to Beirut until 2009. I was an adult on a career path. I had spent my life until that point confounded by the fact that so few people in the art world looked like me or bore names like mine. Where were they hiding?
Contemporary African Art: Beyond Colonial Paradigms
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Chika Okeke met with Okwui Enwezor to discuss “The Short Century,” African artists, and his work as a critic, publisher and curator of contemporary art.
Symbolic (Dis)Possession
Jerusalem is a city of competing symbols. Specters haunt its present and threaten its future.
Porous Cosmopolis: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s many co-extensive projects merge activist praxis, intellectual and skill exchange, horizontalist planning, and creative production to examine and change the way that borders, and the communities around them, are conceived of and function.