To Ensure the Record Can Never Be Whitewashed: Honoring Nona Faustine
Nona Faustine, who passed away this March, was magnificent—a valiant beacon of light in a world often cruel and dismissive of Black women’s histories…
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Do You Believe in Aliens?: Re-Indigenizing the Algorithmic Tropes of Intelligence
I was once teleported to Chapada dos Veadeiros (Plateau of the Deer Protectors) National Park in the southwestern region of the state of Goiás…
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“A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color
Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you…
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“I Wish We Could Reach for New Language”: An Interview with Sky Goodden
Sky Goodden is the founding publisher and editor of Momus, an online art publication based in Canada. Since its founding in 2014 Momus has…
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The Capaciousness of Blackness: An Interview with Dawit. L. Petros
Not very long ago I read Toni Morrison’s Home. This, her tenth novel, chronicles the wayward journey of a young war veteran, Frank Money,…
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Art and Labor: Writers Bloc
It was an ordinary Friday evening in September, perhaps already giving way to Saturday morning bleariness, when I turned to my partner half asleep and…
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Inside My Head: An Interview with Glenn Ligon
American artist Glenn Ligón is bringing together artworks spanning decades, continents, and themes that closely relate to his work with race and gender in post-war America….
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