Art
The Curator Archiving Gun Violence Through Art
Seven years after Susanne Slavick's exhibition Unloaded, the curator continues to update a Facebook page dedicated to artworks and texts that examine the impact and proliferation of firearms.
Archives
Art
A Little Corner of Heaven in East Los Angeles
Guadalupe Rosales’s East of the River is an exhibition of memory, chance, and grief, all encased in nostalgia.
Art
Queering the Archive, Tracing One’s History
The artists showcased in Archival Intimacies examine the colonial trauma’s impact on Asian Americans and search for ways to overcome it.
Art
Fiona Connor’s Portals Into Closed-Down Clubs
Connor creates a simulacrum of closed-down businesses she would frequent or come across in Los Angeles, New York City, and New Zealand.
Art
Artists Explore Divergent Histories in Many Worlds Are Born
The exhibition is part of a collaborative initiative that tasks itself with picking up the unfinished work of history.
Art
A Renaissance of Mexican Cumbia, Through the Eyes of a Fan
Toño Estrada’s personal archives paint a rare portrait of a brief and beautiful period of Mexican cultural creation.
Art
Toni Morrison’s The Black Book Was a Groundbreaking Archive, Anthology, and Scrapbook
Hilton Als’s collection of materials, art, and ephemera isn’t meant to elucidate Morrison’s work but ponder the novelist’s impact on American culture.
Books
Images of When the USSR Was an “Ally of Black Liberation Causes”
Most of the media was created to disseminate Communist principles, particularly anti-racism and anti-colonialism.
Interview
A New Archive Shows Where to Stream Hundreds of Classic Black Films
Hyperallergic speaks to Maya Cade, creator of the Black Film Archive, about showcasing an “abundance of Blackness across time.”
Opinion
The Brontë Archive Needs to be Secured for Public Use and Made Accessible
Decolonizing the archive includes mobilizing students like mine to bethe decolonizers.
News
Introducing the World’s First Game Show Archive
The Strong National Museum of Play will collect scripts, set designs, props, and more.
News
The History of Anti-racist Protests in Brooklyn, From Abolition to Black Lives Matter
Launching on Juneteenth, the Brooklyn Public Library’s newest initiative examines six decades of Black-led activism in the borough.