Reviews
Great Force
The press preview was wrapping up. Journalists, community organizers, and artists were assembled at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA)...
Deborah Anzinger: An Unlikely Birth
In an epigraph to her book Zong!—a meditation on the 1781 massacre of an estimated 150 slaves in the Middle...
Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here
If you have never seen the name Suzanne Lacy on a wall label in a museum, or even a gallery,...
Counterpublic 2019
Late afternoon sunlight floods in, through a garage door that opens into a local yoga studio, where Isabel Lewis sways...
Trauma and Repetition: fence by Staibdance
On October 3, 2019, Staibdance premiered a new work, fence, by Artistic Director George Staib in collaboration with Managing Director...
MOMENTUM 10: The Emotional Exhibition
With the title The Emotional Exhibition, MOMENTUM 10 avoided a curatorial maxim that all 29 artistic projects—shown in two main...
Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who was born into slavery. Douglass’ life...
Gina Adams: Its Honor Is Hereby Pledged
American pioneers would spend up to a year preparing for a trip west. In addition to provisions, prepared settlers packed...
Alan Ruiz: Infrapolitics
Infrastructure is where the material and political forces shaping our experience most intimately coincide. It is the fabric of the...
Simone Leigh: Loophole of Retreat
Simone Leigh’s Hugo Boss Prize exhibition, Loophole of Retreat, continues the ongoing exploration of black female subjectivity characteristic of Leigh’s...