Art Review
How Black Women Ceramicists Shaped Art History
Body Vessel Clay at the Ford Foundation Gallery spans three generations of artists who embody continuity, molding the past and present.
Ford Foundation Gallery
Art Review
A Vision of Design That Transcends Empire’s Grid
Reverberations decenters anthropocentrism, builds upon non-Western cosmologies, and harnesses alternative knowledge-keeping.
Art
At the Root of Justice Are Different Kinds of Love
The exhibition No Justice Without Love poses questions about the roots and limitations of our civic imagination.
Art
Strategies for Embracing the Fabulously Mundane
A self-avowed pleasure activist, writer and professor Sami Schalk is building a project that revels in taking simple yet transformative steps towards feeling good, while rejecting ableist frameworks.
Art
Imagining Utopia, Just Over the Horizon
The final exhibition of a trilogy at the Ford Foundation gallery imagines that our best selves have yet to be. They are on the horizon and the people who have been most oppressed, most ignored, and rejected will lead us all there.
Interview
How to Curate a Yearlong, Three-Part Exhibition
Curators Jaishri Abichandani and Natasha Becker unpack Perilous Bodies, Radical Love, and the upcoming Utopian Imagination exhibitions — three exhibitions that formed one series for the Ford Foundation Gallery's inaugural year.
Art
What Does Radical Love Look Like?
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
How Bodies in Peril Might Help Us See Our Humanity
Perilous Bodies, an exhibition at the Ford Foundation's newly opened gallery, suggests the inescapable vulnerability of embodiment.