Art
Remembering Juneteenth
I learned to love Juneteenth long before I became aware of the emancipation of enslaved Black people. I think my father was his happiest on that day; he permitted himself to do whatever he wanted on Freedom Day.
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Art
About the Black Skin We Live In
As Juneteenth approaches, I've been given reason to consider a confluence of events and ideas: my family’s life-long process of becoming Black and having to police my sons’ consumption of a certain kind of blackface.
Interview
How Do We Photograph Freedom? A Conversation with Leigh Raiford
The relationship between Black liberation and photography reveals many things about our notions of freedom and the limitations of image making as a form of common truth.
Art
Sunday Edition, Juneteenth: ✊🏿From Images of Liberation to Remembrances🍷
A collection of the complicated and powerful stories that orbit Juneteenth.
Art
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Chase DuBose Is Proud of Graduating This Year, Amid Everything
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
Art
Required Reading
This week, John Bolton's late revelations; the difference between photography in books, exhibitions, and on screens; corporate profiteering off racism; architecture's coronavirus moment; and more.
Music
Reflections of America in Rap
Four new rap releases reflect the divided state of the nation.
Books
Memoir as the Fragments of Memory
When Michel Leiris died in 1990 at age 89 he was a canonical figure in France, mainly for having remade the genre of memoir in his own image.
Art
Hauntingly Beautiful Photos for an Anxious Moment
On Instagram, Kana Hashimoto’s images of nocturnal Tokyo unwittingly capture the odd feeling of time itself as the coronavirus pandemic drags on.
Books
Bernadette Mayer Evokes the Banality and Urgency of the Quotidian
In Memory, the poet shapes a new visual and textual language that explores the simmering possibilities of consciousness.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“In the midst of a contagion that threatens our way of life, isolates us remorselessly from family and friends, and breeds fear and paranoia, I find these pieces grounding.”
Film
What Hollywood Does to Asian Actors
Hollywood stereotypes define the Asian male as bowing, scraping, obsequious, devious, sneaky, dismal, and sexually frustrated.