Art
Deana Lawson’s Sublime Visions of Black Communion
Portals to the otherworldly, Lawson’s grand-scale photographs reveal the divine in the secular.
Daniella Brito
Art
Working With Tobacco, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill Offers Decolonial Possibilities
In her first US solo museum show, Hill invites reflection on tobacco’s mass consumption while underscoring its long Indigenous history.
Art
Lingering in the Crossroads Between the Human and the Divine
In her US debut, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro charts the boundless potential of the spiritual in-between.
Art
Julie Mehretu Reminds Us That Borders Are Meant to Be Trespassed
Mehretu’s remarkable mid-career survey blazes through the Whitney Museum of Art, illuminating over two decades of her extensive practice.
Art
In Thrilling Palettes, Ilana Savdie Maps Electrifying Geographies
In the artist’s first solo exhibition, fragments of vibrant color quake with anticipation as if waiting to be ignited.
Art
In De Lo Mío, Artists Push and Pull at the Seams of Dominican Collective Memory
Themes of tourism, migration, and national identity inform the exhibition’s formidable and, at times, paradoxical quest to a shared homeland.
Art
This Longing Vessel Transmits Dreams of Tomorrow
Queerness and desire take center stage in the most recent exhibition of work by the Studio Museum in Harlem Artists-in-Residence.
Books
Black Futures, an Anthology Brimming With Life and Radical Imagination
The new book by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham considers an urgent question: “What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?”
Art
John Edmonds’s Intimate Gaze
In his meticulously posed photographs, Edmonds conjures new avenues for imaging relationships between Africa and its diasporas today.
Art
Leilah Babirye Imagines Queer Clans of Uganda
Spanning two galleries at Gordon Robichaux, Babirye’s commanding solo exhibition transforms discarded objects into queer guardians.