Sherae Rimpsey
Tiffany Smith: Back Home
During my first meeting with artist Tiffany Smith, she showed me a photograph of her grandmother. It was a black-and-white...
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.
Tirzo Martha: Things in Perpetual Becoming
Tirzo Martha is an artist based in Curaçao and the founder of Instituto Bueno Bista (IBB). I traveled to Curaçao...
I Like It Hot: Red, White & Royal Blue
Please forgive the obvious circularity of this statement when I say that, despite my perception of the film’s marketing as...
Simphiwe Mbunyuza has something to say —
Inkobe, Umnandi Ngo Chubelana
Touch. Quietude. Play. The haptic constitutes prayer (what we do all the time these days) and longing. We mean to...
Marking Time: Willie Birch’s The Roofers
Willie Birch, The Roofers, 2022, triptych, 84 x 60 inches [© Willie Birch; courtesy of the artist] The figures in...
Making Time: Mildred Thompson’s Magnetic Fields
Color, line, form move toward an undefined but perceived center—by moving out of it. Density builds, decimates, then replenishes. There’s...
Nope—A Certain Tendency of the Immaterial
Top to Bottom: Jordan Peele, Nope, 2022, still [courtesy of IMDb and Universal Studios]; Prince, Under the Cherry Moon, 1986,...