KANTEN 観展: The Limits of History Exhibition Essay
KANTEN 観展 is a play on the Japanese kanji for perspective 観点 (kanten), and art exhibition 展覧会 (tenrankai)—coming together to indicate…
Just Between Us: From the Archives of Arlan Huang
For nearly six decades as a practicing artist, Arlan Huang has quietly collected art. While some of the pieces were…
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s Public Art Creates Spaces to Heal
Artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a daughter of Thai and Indonesian immigrants who splits her time between Brooklyn and just about…
SEED OF THE FLOWER:
ANNIE E. A. WALKER
“(…) exquisite butterflies trapped in an evil honey, toiling away their lives in an era, a century, that did not…
Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Visions of Power
In their depictions of domination, the artist’s works, full of world-building and philosophy, do more than flip the script. A…
Cara Romero Stands Defiant Against Institutional Categorization
The artist’s photographs shine a light on the unseen, resisting colonial categorization and institutional biases around art made by Native…
Artist Titus Kaphar on His Debut Documentary, and How It Centers the Need for Black Artists to Engage Black Communities
‘Shut Up and Paint’ details Kaphar’s balancing of the ‘dichotomy between the art world and the community I was raised…
Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Shattered Gender and Race Expectations in 19th-Century America
As the orphaned child of a black father and a Native-American mother, Lewis rewrote the 19th-century definition of sculptor Kidnapped,…
Theaster Gates Turns the Stain of the Past Into Art
Theaster Gates, a social practice installation artist based in Chicago, is turning the history of Black labor in America on…
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….
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