Ascending Into the Realm of Naudline Pierre’s Mystical Paintings
Encountering Pierre’s dynamic, intensely colorful oil paintings, sculptures, and works on paper is like entering a spiritually charged, alternate world….
Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence
In a bare room upstairs from his art studio inside an industrial building in the South Bronx, Derek Fordjour watched as three…
Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart
From the start of her career in the mid-1990s, Fernanda Laguna (b. 1972, Buenos Aires) has charted her own artistic…
In His Debut Solo Show, Micaiah Carter Explores the Nuances of Healing
The photographer and director’s first stand-alone exhibition honors his familial legacy, centers Black beauty—and examines what those concepts look like…
Nneka Jones Uplifts Black Women in Her Embroidered Portraits
The hand-embroidered portraits of Black girls and women by Tampa-based artist Nneka Jones focus on themes of exploitation and empowerment. Her training…
Hiba Schahbaz Claims a Personal and Collective Femininity Through Painting
The Brooklyn-based Pakistani artist Hiba Schahbaz attended art school in Lahore, Pakistan, where she discovered Indo-Persian miniature paintings made with tea. For…
“SPINKY” ALSTON’S SPIRALING RED CLAY
Red. The color of blood and of North Carolina’s rich clay soil. The powerful color of the clay comes from…
Why a giant puppet is walking the streets of New York
CNN — She’s dodged protesters in Greece, met the pope at the Vatican and posed beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Now a 12-foot-tall puppet is…
A Cree Artist Redraws History
With humor and fantasy, Kent Monkman disrupts clichés of Native victimhood at the Met. Coonskin caps for Christmas! I was…
Chitra Ganesh: On the value of process and what success actually means
Artist Chitra Ganesh on the cultural iconography that informs her work, working across a wide variety of mediums, and what…
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