Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to ...

Elizabeth Wiet. Elizabeth Wiet is a writer and editor based in New York. She is currently deputy editor at Topical Cream and contributing editor at Bidoun. Her writing has appeare ...

Mimi Howard. Mimi Howard is a writer and critic based in New York whose work explores contemporary art and the legacies of ...

At three intervals throughout Vijay Masharani’s eighteen-minute video Good Attack (2021), the camera fixates on a sign ...

Najrin Islam. Najrin Islam is a writer, curator, and film programmer currently based in London. Her writings have featured in ...

A soft, warm light morphs into a shadow of a woman’s braided hair on the back of her neck. There is the sound of faint footsteps as she moves around her flat, shifting objects in the kitchen, the ...

At this time when we are fighting an all out war against tyranny and oppression, it is extremely important that the picture of Negro women . . . be sharply drawn. —Elizabeth Catlett, 1945 application ...

Growing up with a mother who overidentified with the home, I pulled away from ideas of the domestic in my own caricatured understanding of it. Therefore, it would be typical of me to be more ...

Ursula Biemann has been challenging, and excavating, how knowledge is produced for thirty years now, but in the past decade she has turned her attention to the environment. Her fieldwork has ...

Hesse—and her legacy—is also the reason the editor David Richardson and I first met. For years Richardson and our friend Sal Randolph operated the publishing project dispersed holdings out of Hesse’s ...

Shelly’s personae are disturbingly elaborate and just as self-contradictory, confusing, and multilayered as the reality we live in, largely because they often come from real-life experiences. They ...

At first glance, the earth spilling out from behind the tall, squared columns of the German pavilion’s facade appears to be a pile of rubble, reminiscent of a war zone or construction site. However, ...