Coco Fusco’s breakout came three decades ago at a high watermark of debates over identity politics and multiculturalism, ...

Luke Urbain. Luke Urbain writes on aesthetic responses to social and economic precarity in the Caribbean and its diasporas, with attention to the folds of race, queerness, and col ...

There is a quality of lore around Jana Sterbak. Alongside her temperamental performances and pyrotechnic affinities, she is ...

I’ve spent the better part of five months trying to write a review of a show that’s now closed: MOCA Toronto’s inaugural exhibition, Believe….

Visibly shaken professors made a special announcement at our university’s recent Race Equity Caucus meeting. They’d been harassed for participating in a virtual conference called “Dismantling Global ...

Decolonization involves destruction and upheaval, but in equal measures is a process of creation—a radical world-building that imparts not only a political but cultural and ecological heritage. This ...

Late last year, the artist Adam Broomberg again found himself punished for speaking out in support of Palestinian liberation. Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Germany, where he had recently ...

In between visits to Nadia Belerique’s exhibition, SLICE, at David Dale Gallery in Glasgow, I’d been engaged in moving flats for the first time since March 2020. The imaginative potency of private ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though his most renowned artworks are in the next gallery along with his clownish public ...

I took a community-college workshop five years ago with Kirk Stoller, an artist whose work I could look at forever. Kirk used carpentry tailings and hardware-store components to make sculptures that ...

Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do what I am doing in painting,” the artist said in the final decade of his life.