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The Moment Is Not Sufficient
“Black art” is a varied concept. The way we define the phrase is tied to the way we think about American identity and who has the ability to claim it.
Toward a Monumental Black Body
The Black body has been objectified and used to incite terror, just as it has been used to revise and shift narratives. To address the growing call for diverse representation in public space, the question is: can artists succeed where the state fails?
The New Civil Rights Moment: A Recap
Tracing a thread through social media and the proliferation of smart phone video cameras to today.
Historians of Exile
The immigrant documentaries of Chantal Akerman and Jonas Mekas.
Thinking Through Contagion
Confront a problem and think it to death.
Myriam Ben Salah: Missed Connections
Mahfuz Sultan and curator Myriam Ben Salah discuss Ben Salah’s curation of the 2020 Made in L.A. exhibition, and being nomads, refugees, or exiles.
The Principles of Participatory Art
Artists using other humans in their work may require examination, monitoring, and a philosophical prescription.
A Year of Women’s Revenge
In 2019, women protagonists become the avengers for systemic violence.
This Is America: A Drill at the Park Avenue Armory
Fawz Kabra questions the logics of institutional critique in Hito Steyerl’s Drill.
Convention Culture: New Orleans ’88
As summer steamed into oblivion it was tempting to say that nothing much was happening or had happened in the period before and after the Republican convention. Yet in its own way that media spectacle has by its sheer banal extravagance provided a kind of contextual frame around things, for matters both pointed and tangential.