June Clark’s Perseverance of Memory
June Clark’s Tubman (2023) is a large, mixed-media sculpture that captivates a glance immediately. Vertical strips of red, blue, and white yarn are bound…
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Mourning Jimmie Durham
In April, I wrote a review of an exhibition at the Hammer Museum at UCLA: “Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World.” I…
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Grieving in L.A.
My first trip to Los Angeles started ten days after an election that diminished our assurance in something like a common good. I booked…
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“If You Are Black, You Really Are Coming from Behind”: Orders of Visibility in Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described the collective imagination of black people in America in terms of freedom dreams, and these dreams…
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