The Historical Invention of Gala Porras-Kim
For Los Angeles artist Gala Porras-Kim, the labels, shelving, and object tags that accompany artifacts in ethnographic museums are the stuff of site. At…
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Oliver Lee Jackson, the People’s Painter
“The Painter” moves expansively but in fits across the second side of Dogon A.D., a pendulous free jazz masterpiece self-released by Julius Hemphill in…
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Caribbean Being and Becoming in “Fragments of Epic Memory”
In his 1992 Nobel Lecture The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory, Derek Walcott characterized Caribbean poetry as a remaking of fragmented memory. The Art…
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The Bodies That Scramble India’s “Constitutions”
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…
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The Anxious Nostalgia of Steven Shearer
There is a variety of rose called “Nostalgia” that is white on the inside and trimmed in red. The nostalgia rose is not a great metaphor for nostalgia itself, which is…
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Seeking Specificity in Postcommodity
To be given the opportunity to travel for the sake of art, even if it’s from one small dusty Prairie city to another, is…
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Don’t Look Back: Renée Green’s Present Tense
Renée Green’s latest exhibition Inevitable Distances unfolds across two locations, the KW Institute of Contemporary Art and the daadgalerie, both of which bill the…
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Across This Fraught Place: Survivance at the 2021 Texas Biennial
In one part of Tomashi Jackson’s video Vibrating Boundaries (Law of the Land) (Self Portrait as Tatyana, Dajerria, & Sandra) (2015), we hear audio…
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An Aesthetic of Enough
This month, COP26, the UN’s near-annual climate conference, gathered global heads of state to set a new round of targets to limit global emissions…
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More than Not: LACMA’s “Not I” and the Necessity of History
Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE), a recent exhibition at LACMA, was in thrall to its ideas. Though ventriloquism was its central theme,…
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