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How commonplace and easy it would be to truly love Black women if love were merely limerence, desire, and other...
Telling Stories About Ourselves: Zia Anger’s Radical Mythmaking
Zia Anger will be the first to tell you that Gray was not a successful movie. Created on a shoestring...
Fusebox Festival 2020: “Living” Roots in the Virtual
Texas was set to welcome hundreds of local, national, and international artists and visitors to sites across Austin for the...
Lorraine O’Grady: Writing in Space, 1973–2019
While on a Schomburg Center fellowship in the summer of 2017, I came across Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Costume (1980), arguably...
Another Map to Nevada
What is the best way to bring out a thriving city’s art crowd for a gathering after they have been...
Notre Monde Brûle (Our World Is Burning)
How do we conceive of humanity’s impact upon the planet? This question is central to Notre Monde Brûle (Palais de...
SOFT POWER
SFMOMA’s recent exhibition SOFT POWER was a sprawling assortment of conceptual artworks by 20 prominent contemporary artists. Works on view...
Lydia Ourahmane: صرخة شمسية Solar Cry
A visitor to Lydia Ourahmane’s صرخة شمسية Solar Cry steps from the street into a thick, disjointed song, an ambient howl—and immediately begins to interrupt its melody. Three kilos...
Ceija Stojka: This Has Happened
When Ceija Stojka was 10 years old, she was captured by Nazi forces and sent to Auschwitz. Fifteen months later...
Rock My Soul
Emerging from an earth of silenced voices, artists take it upon themselves to speak for a community. Rock My Soul...