Reviews
Azza El Siddique: In the place of annihilation, where all the past was present and returned transformed
Azza El Siddique’s exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center is a treatise on scent and transformation. In the place...
A Movement of the Earth Against the World
Kassel has a fabled history. The Brothers Grimm emerged here during a paradigm shift that marked the amalgamation of Germany’s...
Vadis Turner Encounters
The night before I flew to Alabama, I went to opening night of Medea at the Metropolitan Opera. Typical characters—rich,...
BREYER P-ORRIDGE: We Are But One
In We Are But One [April 15–July 10, 2022]—the first major, posthumous US exhibition of artists, musicians, occultists, and spouses...
12th Berlin Biennale: Still Present!
It took time for my thoughts on Still Present!, the 12th Berlin Biennale, to settle. At first, my impressions veered...
Charmaine Minniefield:
Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story
Inside the John Howett Works on Paper Gallery at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum, Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story...
Simone Leigh: Sovereignty
“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.”
What’s Love Got to Do with It? What Is Left Unspoken, Love
In its presentation of almost 70 works by more than 35 contemporary artists based in North America, Europe, and Asia—including...
partus/chorus
partus/chorus is US-based artist Ja’Tovia Gary’s curatorial debut. It is an exhibition about the Black womb from a perspective anchored...
Because the Sky Will Be Filled With Sulfur—Jeremy Bolen
It is with grace that Jeremy Bolen’s exhibition Because the Sky Will Be Filled With Sulfur tackles the immense amount...
