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Erica Cardwell

Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, critic, and educator based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, The Believer, Frieze, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. Erica received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She teaches writing and social justice at The New School.

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A Staggering New Play Creates Space for Black Interiority and Grief

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell July 4, 2021July 2, 2021

What to Send Up When It Goes Down holds Black people at its center, inviting unique moments of commiseration, anger, and helplessness with no apologies.

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Ishmael Reed Picks Hamilton Apart, Bit by Revisionist Bit

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell January 18, 2021July 13, 2022

The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda deconstructs the Broadway play’s abolitionist portrayal of the founding father with incisive, impeccably-researched satire.

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An Artist Probes Her Southern Lineage in Luminous Shades of Blue

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell October 30, 2020November 5, 2020

Gathering hair, indigo, and artifacts from two South Carolina plantations, Adebunmi Gbadebo: A Dilemma of Inheritance considers the materiality of the past.

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Making Art Against the Backdrop of Incarceration

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell October 21, 2020December 14, 2020

In a year of perpetual change, Marking Time demonstrates the urgent need for a shift in culture, one where crisis need not be the charge for moving towards a better world.

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Karyn Olivier Subverts the Formal Seriousness of Monuments

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell May 6, 2020May 5, 2020

Using materials both random and familiar, Olivier’s Everything That’s Alive Moves questions our physical, psychic, and material relationship to history.

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Probing the Tensions Between the Universal and the Specific in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell December 13, 2019December 13, 2019

Then and now, Shange’s work responds to an urgent fever pitch humming beneath the taut surface of pain and respectability. A dazzling revival at the Public Theater reminds us of its timelessness.

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Consciousness, Conflict, and Contradiction in the Art of Robert Colescott

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell November 27, 2019November 27, 2019

After viewing Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott — the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective to date — it feels fair to assume that factions of society still aren’t ready for Colescott.

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The Undersung Art of Native American Women, Front and Center

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell August 15, 2019August 15, 2019

Inside a years-long effort to show a millennium’s worth of art by Native American women.

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Empathy, Fantasy, and the Power of Protest: A Conversation with Chitra Ganesh

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell October 30, 2015October 30, 2015

In artist Chitra Ganesh’s latest exhibition, Protest Fantasies at Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco, protest becomes something more than rebellion — it becomes internal.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Immortal Black Life

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell May 8, 2015May 14, 2015

Often, I consider what people will make of my notebooks after I am dead.

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