New Orleans
Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home
Tiffany Smith: Back Home
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.
Marking Time: Willie Birch’s The Roofers
What Cannot Be Held—Malcolm Peacock’s We Served … and they felt tiny bursts along the horizon
Dread Scott: Beyond History
Reporting as a performance observer and implicated participant.
Imagine New Monuments
Emily Wilkerson offers a case study of the New Orleans collective Paper Monuments.
Cultural Militancy: New Orleans Art After Katrina
Eric Bookhardt reports on the New Orleans art scene after Katrina, and discusses its resurgent militancy.
Captives
I went back to Charleston, SC, for a wedding recently, and of all the port cities I have visited, lived in, or loved, Charleston is the worst.