Art
Adam Pendleton Examines the Multiplicity of Blackness
The artist's largest solo exhibition to date explores blackness as a color, an idea, an identity, a method, and a political movement.
Amiri Baraka
Art
The Graphic Idealism of the 1970s US Radical Left
An exhibition at the Interference Archive creates the feeling of wandering around an old curiosity shop where the stock is radical politics.
Poetry
The Poet with a Razor in His Vest: Amiri Baraka's Selected Poems
When a publication of a large selection of poems by Amiri Baraka, who died this past year, was announced, I immediately determined to review it.
Performance
Does White Privilege Make You Sweat?
It's difficult to create art about white privilege. Though one can easily enough declare that white privilege is bad, distilling all its paradoxes into a poignant artistic image is challenging. And when an artist succeeds, it commands attention.