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Tariku Shiferaw
Unabashedly confronting issues related to racial identity, Tariku Shiferaw employs an obstinately formalist language of geometric abstraction in his practice to unpack the precariousness of contemporary Black life and celebrate the cultural production of Black people.
nora chipaumire: Radical Space
New modalities of appearance and production for the Black body within performative spaces.
Nacional Insufficiencies
An interrogation of pubic monuments and memorials by looking to Carlos Motta and Cynthia Gutiérrez.
Notre Monde Brûle (Our World Is Burning)
Randy Ford: How To Pave a Street for Queens
A conversation about creating and protecting spaces for queer and trans people of color.
Kevin Young: The Opposite of a Hoax
On the racialized history of truth, fiction, and hoax.
Dread Scott: Beyond History
Reporting as a performance observer and implicated participant.
The Moment Is Not Sufficient
“Black art” is a varied concept. The way we define the phrase is tied to the way we think about American identity and who has the ability to claim it.
Toward a Monumental Black Body
The Black body has been objectified and used to incite terror, just as it has been used to revise and shift narratives. To address the growing call for diverse representation in public space, the question is: can artists succeed where the state fails?
Emma Amos
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Mildred Thompson in conversation with Emma Amos for ART PAPERS March/April 1995.