Features
Much Ado About Nothing
An empty plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square sparks a public debate.
The Political Afterlife of the Babri Masjid
Tausif Noor explores histories of a destroyed Muslim monument in India, the rise of Hindu nationalism, and Sahmat Collective’s formation and multimedia practices of response and resistance.
Memory Work and Militancy
Living and Working in Other Worlds
Tal Beery calls for making new worlds from the deconstructed raw material of our most stolid and faltering institutions.
Bodies / Antibodies
Miriam Simun’s text-and-image artist project meanders through the first month or so of quarantine, exploring the porousness of the body—the touching/not touching—and offers a kind of choreography of permeability.
Nacional Insufficiencies
An interrogation of pubic monuments and memorials by looking to Carlos Motta and Cynthia Gutiérrez.
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?
The New Civil Rights Moment: A Recap
Tracing a thread through social media and the proliferation of smart phone video cameras to today.