Opinion
Manufacturing "Black Fatigue" in the Art World
Behind the declining demand for Black portraiture, and the backlash against Thomas J Price’s Times Square sculpture, lurks a strategic campaign of erasure.
Damien Davis
Damien Davis is a Newark-based artist and educator. His practice explores representation and identity through a visual language that recontextualizes symbols from diverse cultures, challenging historical narratives and inviting new interpretations.
Opinion
Who’s Afraid of Successful Black Artists?
This spring, New York's museums feature four Black artists in major solo exhibitions. Some in the media are not happy about it.
Book Review
Returning the Gaze of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits
As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even.
Interview
Ron Norsworthy’s Revolution of Queer Black Male Self-Love
Norsworthy and I sat down to discuss his recent works, which wield the Ancient Greek myth of Narcissus to examine the power of beauty, who defines it, and how we can reclaim it.