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Zina Saro-Wiwa
Poncili Creación Fights a More Beautiful Fight
Maxwell Paparella spends time with exuberant Puerto Rican performance collective Poncili Creación.
Henrik Olesen: What is Most Deep is the Skin
On artist Henrik Olesen’s “Hysterical Men” and “The Walk,” which concern mental illness and the pathologization of queerness by way of historical figures.
On Evasion
A formal and historical reading of a set of drawings probably forged by an analyst and used to make various claims about autistic people.
Vacant Presence
On how and why artists Park McArthur, Jesse Darling, and Julia Phillips use bodily supports without depicting the figure.
Sitting Beside Yvonne Rainer’s Convalescent Dance
Contextualizing Rainer’s “Convalescent Dance” (1967) alongside the spectacularization of disabled bodies during the Vietnam War, and framing convalescing as a radical act.
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.
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?
Symbolic (Dis)Possession
Jerusalem is a city of competing symbols. Specters haunt its present and threaten its future.