Book Review
Jewelry Deserves a Place in Art History
Beyond Adornment explores what the depiction of jewelry in art says about adornment, artists, and their subjects, from Charlemagne to Frida Kahlo.
Aida Amoako
Aida Amoako is a freelance writer from London. She writes about art, culture and whatever she’s obsessed with.
Art Review
Noah Davis’s Black American Arcadia
Davis portrayed scenes in which Black people could truly recognize themselves, eschewing stereotypical depictions and imbuing his subjects with a sense of the surreal.
Art
How Do We Know We’re Looking at the Same Painting?
More than an overarching narrative, Gregg Bordowitz is invested in what it means to observe art together and share an emotion with another person.
Art
Yinka Shonibare’s Patterns of Decolonization
In a gallery such as Serpentine, defined by both Britishness and blue-chip status in the art world, how much can categories be suspended?
Art
An Introduction to “Afrogallonism”
Serge Attukwei Clottey explores Ghanaian culture and identity through discarded jerrycans and other found materials.
Art
What Does It Mean to Create Afrofuturistic Art?
In this apocalyptic future that Sedrick Chisom so vividly builds, all people of color have left Earth.
Books
The Art of the Devil, a Delightfully Diabolic Illustrated History
Demetrio Paparoni's latest book ultimately hints at how latent fears of the prince of darkness have continued to fuel our imaginations, no matter how much we try to laugh him off.
Books
The Complex History of Yellow, a “Mediocre” Color
Considering the evidence of yellow’s constant fluctuation in and out of favor, it is curious to see author Michel Pastoureau wonder if it could be “the color of the future.”
Books
The Art School Roots of Pop Music's Legends
In How Art Made Pop and Pop Became Art, Mike Roberts charts the extraordinary reciprocal relationship between art schools and pop musicians.
Books
The Iconic Magazine Covers that Changed the World
The oral histories in Iconic Magazine Covers bring the work of producing images that stand the test of time down to earth.
Art
Sondra Perry's First Solo European Show Engulfs Visitors in Turner's "The Slave Ship"
Typhoon Coming On challenges visitors to consider the UK’s complicity in the dehumanisation of black people.