Dossier
The New Exclusionism
Catchwords like “diversity,” “transculturalism,” “pluralism” cause my antennae to go up, and warning bells of skepticism to go off in my head. Not about these ideas per se, you understand, but about the way they are being implemented in our free-enterprise society in the 1980’s.
Where is the Art World Left?
Where is the artworld “Left” in the age of “trickle-down,” homelessness, the rise of the Aryan Nation and corporate art coma: a dehumanization of art and artist into a common denominator of profit?
Interview: David Hammons
“I can’t stand art actually. I’ve never, ever liked art, ever.”
Marketing Afro-American Artists
Afro-American artists will never get their fair share of the market until and unless white males, who control almost all the major cultural and academic institutions in our society, finally accept the well documented fact that “Western Civilization” would not exist were it not for the contributions of most of the human beings in the world.
In Memoriam: Romare Bearden (1914-1988)
David C. Driskell pays homage to Romare Bearden.
Celestia Morgan
Celestia Morgan, a conceptual photographer and sculptor living in Birmingham, AL, captures systems of inequality and justice.
Chase Hall
With his paintings, sculptures, and photographs, Chase Hall has set himself on a journey to mine the gap between the intimacies of Black life and the traces of psychopathology that gives the appearance of White supremacy an uneasy palatability.
Crystal Z Campbell
Crystal Z Campbell collapses the past and present to historically contextualize the legacy of the theater and the physicality of the crumbling film as a site of destruction and fortitude.
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.
Shaina McCoy
Shaina McCoy is a Minneapolis, MN–based artist whose deeply textured paintings regularly depict Black children, families, and social scenes.