Interview
Art historian and curator Lowery Stokes Sims discusses why she wanted to present as complete a picture of Colescott's work as possible in this retrospective at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.
Film
To help me parse this year's film Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, I had a conversation with Steven G. Fullwood, an archivist, editor, publisher, and scholar, to discuss the documentary's approach in telling the phenomenal author's story.
Interview
A conversation with the artist Elias Sime, whose work interrogating our bond with electronic media is now on view at the Wellin Museum.
Art
City of Workers, City of Struggle at the Museum of the City of New York tracks the evolution of the labor movement as an unpredictable passage of pitfalls and switchbacks.
Art
Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio, a public art exhibition on the civil rights organization, displays the group's spirit of refusal to accept our skewed legal, political, economic, and social organization system.
Art
In Garry Winogrand's Color, color slides wink in and out of existence as images are paired in small visual novellas.
Art
When love is in full bloom, it goes everywhere and touches everything and in its nondiscrimination constitutes an attitude rarely seen or enacted in human story.
Art
Simone Leigh's work, on view at the Guggenheim Museum, is inhibiting in a particularly difficult way: it doesn’t seduce; it doesn’t explain, it doesn’t rely on interpretation; it doesn’t care what I think.
Art
Surveilling the landscape of Cleveland, Sondra Perry’s latest exhibition A Terrible Thing fashions an institutional critique of MoCA Cleveland.
Art
Woven Walls, a tightly curated summer show at Morgan Lehman Gallery, explores a language between the threads of different textiles.
Art
One of the first things that Neckles does with her work here is convey where her head is at, yet there’s still much in this exhibition that is enigmatic.
Art
Rather than lamenting the holes he finds in the social and material fabric of his culture, Justin Sterling fills them with stories and novel vistas.