Interview
The Art World Loves to Talk Shit
The co-directors of “It’s Just a Fucking Opening,” a new short film, spoke to Hyperallergic about toxic sociality and the line between criticism and gossip in the art world.
Zoë Hopkins
Zoë Hopkins studies Art History and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
Opinion
Lessons on Black Art Writing From Toni Morrison
Morrison reminds us to dwell in Black visions, to give ourselves over to them entirely, and to do so in language that does not plead for understanding.
Art
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monument to Empathy
Though Frazier's photography is often described as “documentary,” it betrays a thorough investment in and interchange with those she photographs.
Art
Ming Smith Moving Through Shadows
From Smith’s art, we glean a picture of an artist transformed by risk, by a willingness to wander toward obscurity.
Art
The Internationalism of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a globally networked movement of sprawling self-determination energized by the new modalities of Black subjectivity.
Art
The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art
Don’t come to Unnamed Figures expecting to see pictures of Black people sitting comfortably alongside words like “empowerment” or “excellence.”
Art
Emanoel Araújo’s World-Making Art
The relentless dynamism of Araújo’s sculptures and assemblages stir up a visual rhythm that is at once elegant and entropic.
Art
Kapwani Kiwanga Uses Daylight to Expose Racial Surveillance
Kapwani Kiwanga invites viewers to look with only the quiet glow of natural light seeping in through the skylights, illuminating a nuanced way of seeing race.
Art
The Frenzied Cacophony of Adam Pendleton
For the artist, history doesn’t simply settle for repeating itself but jolts forward, stammers, pauses for breath, weaves around itself.
Art
In Swirling Canvases, Gareth Nyandoro Expresses the Rhythms of Labor
Teeming with energy, Nyandoro’s works express a disquieting otherworldliness, suspended at the fragile cusp between reality and dreams.
Art
Precious Okoyomon Envelops Us in the Textures of Black Mourning
At Performance Space New York, Okoyomon enables a sense of communion amid unrelenting loss.