Review
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...
Laurie Kang: Beolle
Along the floor of the solarium in Oakville Galleries’ Gairloch Gardens lay unrolled, unfixed, and unprocessed photographic paper and films,...
The Seventh Continent
The title The Seventh Continent refers to the Great Pacific garbage patch, which is a mass—approximately five times the size...
Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone
A bicycle-helmeted boy, shoulders drawn in slightly, stands on a ramp at the entrance of a parking garage. He is...