How Visual Culture Is Implicated in Mass Incarceration How Visual Culture Is Implicated in Mass Incarceration
Art historian Nicole R. Fleetwood’s Marking Time explores the creative practices and cultural institutions shaped by the prison industrial complex.
Jun 25, 2020 / Jessica Lynne
A Lesbian Archive Sends Its Love Letter: Find History, Find Yourself A Lesbian Archive Sends Its Love Letter: Find History, Find Yourself
Scenes from a pandemic: 13
Jun 24, 2020 / Jewelle Gomez
The World Is Finally Catching Up to Spike Lee The World Is Finally Catching Up to Spike Lee
From Do the Right Thing to Da 5 Bloods, no American filmmaker speaks more urgently to our times.
Jun 22, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Charli XCX’s Experiment In Radical Transparency Charli XCX’s Experiment In Radical Transparency
During the first months of quarantine, she crafted an album in real time—and, in the process, celebrated how online connection changed the way we live and create.
Jun 17, 2020 / Olivia Horn
Bodies & Water Bodies & Water
I think about my kneecaps, my ear canal, the slight webbing between toes & fingers; I think about brown bodies, my body; how my belly ebbs & sinks & floats & calms…
Jun 16, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Felicia Zamora
I used a tool to reach… I used a tool to reach…
I used a tool to reach a tool I used to make a tool I used to make a metaphysics. The crows, those rocket scientists, those medieval scholars, were exhaustively doing and knowing t…
Jun 16, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Smith
Gimmicks Might Be the Key to Understanding Capitalism Gimmicks Might Be the Key to Understanding Capitalism
Sianne Ngai’s Theory of the Gimmick continues her project of looking at how aesthetic categories shape labor, value, and everyday experience.
Jun 11, 2020 / Q&A / Jennifer Wilson
Harry Dodge’s ‘My Meteorite’ Is Like a Wonderful Sculpture Harry Dodge’s ‘My Meteorite’ Is Like a Wonderful Sculpture
We spoke to the artist about his recent book, which is the latest installment in a long-standing investigation into materiality, love, and consciousness.
Jun 9, 2020 / Q&A / Tal Milovina
The Twisted Legacy of Alfred Jarry’s Monsters The Twisted Legacy of Alfred Jarry’s Monsters
A recent retrospective of his work, viewable online at the Morgan Library and Museum, illustrates the sprawling influence of his many artistic and philosophical creations.
Jun 8, 2020 / Will Fenstermaker
This Is the Sound of Gentrification This Is the Sound of Gentrification
Ted Hearne and Saul Williams’s Place captures the volatile energies of a changing city beset by the forces of late capitalism.
Jun 5, 2020 / David Hajdu