
“You Took, Took, Took”: Alanis Obomsawin’s Work is Never Finished
In 1969, the young Abenaki singer and activist Alanis Obomsawin, newly hired as a consultant at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), took…
Read MoreIn 1969, the young Abenaki singer and activist Alanis Obomsawin, newly hired as a consultant at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), took…
Read MorePacita Abad, the Filipina artist who roamed the world like a traveling bard, was twenty-four when she left home in 1970. By the time…
Read MoreIf they were lucky, novels about artists published in the past year got to ride the wave of a literary trend termed “Künstlermania.” The…
Read MoreIn March 2008, Ojore Lutalo received official denial of his request for release from solitary confinement at Trenton State Prison. In its appraisal of…
Read MoreOne might think that the recent swell of interest in black art would have eased some of the burdens faced by those who have…
Read MoreTitus Kaphar came into the limelight soon after Time magazine commissioned him in 2014 to make a painting for one of its “Person of the Year”…
Read MoreAs first impressions go, it wasn’t ideal. On the week he was announced as MOCA Los Angeles’s new director, Klaus Biesenbach managed to alienate…
Read MoreThe beautiful weather and the Spring Open House invitation – highlighting some new and promising exhibitions featuring works by Ian Cheng, Maureen Gallace, and Tomáš…
Read MoreMy personal experience [is that] intranational tourism is radically constricting, and humbling in the hardest way – hostile to my fantasy of being a…
Read MoreIf we are to believe artist Hito Steyerl, then ours is an age of planetary civil war. With conflict distributed across the globe, there’s…
Read More