Features
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.
Africatown
My first visit to Africatown was by way of US Highway 90 and the Cochrane-Africatown Bridge, which spans the Mobile...
How To Make an Old World New?
Notes on the Whales in the Room
Entwined with the whaling industry, then, which peaked in the mid-19th century, was the violence of a colonial modernity that rendered the world open for the taking.
Imagination Dead Imagine
Without a Future, We Can Be Forever
Emilio Ambasz Fables
1 MANHATTAN: CAPITAL OF THE XXTH CENTURY 1969 “Once I have grasped it, then an old, as it were rebellious,...
AIDS Art Action
This feature was originally published in ART PAPERS March /April 1989, Vol. 13, issue 2. “It is in the knowledge...