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Charades: A Critique of Corridor Criticism
The often tedious little melodrama of art criticism has been loath to examine its own institutional supports, while cheerily sweeping...
Idol Horrors: The Thrills and Chills of Obsession
“What’s the difference between love and obsession?” There’s a scene in Alex Russell’s film Lurker (2025) in which Oliver (Archie...
The Role of Art Criticism in the Community
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. It was the scariest morning of...
Virtual Vistas
This article was originally published in ART PAPERS May/June 2000, Vol. 24, issue 3. One of the hardest lessons...
ECHOES Episode 5
This month, we have a dialogue between Gean Moreno and Stephanie Bailey discussing resilience and resistance, and other overlapping ideas...
Sheila Pree Bright’s Suburbia: Where Nothing Is Ever Wanting
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS July/August 2007, Vol 31, issue 4. For the past two years, Sheila...
Dark Study: on Emily Jacir, Forensic Architecture, and fugitive documentary
Fugitivity, as it relates to Black study, has been a mode of contesting misrecognition through a lens of narrative darkness....
Jen Everett: Kinship, Interiority & the Black Femme Gaze
Outside Jen Everett’s studio, balmy air collects against warm St. Louis bricks, but my summer sweat is instantly soothed as...
Spiritual Migrations
This interview was originally published in ART PAPERS November/December 2000, Vol. 24, issue 6 After a number of years spent...
Gestures of Refusal:
Black Photography and Visual Culture
Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture is the third installment in the Seeing Black1 series curated by Shana M. griffin. Currently on view at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Gestures is vast and disarming. Before going, I wondered what it would look like: refusing / reiterating / recognizing a way of recounting (all) the ways that we appear to one another—as artists, as humans—swept up in the throes of Blackness. Recognizing. Reiterating. Refusing.