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Hilton Als

Posted inArt

Toni Morrison’s The Black Book Was a Groundbreaking Archive, Anthology, and Scrapbook

Avatar photo by Taylor Michael February 20, 2022February 22, 2022

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.

Posted inFilm

After Decades of Repression, Bill Gunn’s Work Finally Breaks Free

Avatar photo by Justin Kamp August 8, 2021June 27, 2022

Because he refused to play to white hegemony, Gunn’s films were often poorly understood.

Posted inSponsored

Yale Center for British Art Presents The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Yale Center for British Art by Yale Center For British Art September 13, 2019September 13, 2019

This is the second exhibition in a series of three curated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als. On view at the Yale Center for British Art through December 15, 2019.

Posted inBooks

What Do Art Critics Actually Do?

by David Carrier October 20, 2018October 19, 2018

Artists, collectors, curators, and dealers are all needed for the system to function, but the role of critics is up for grabs.

Posted inBooks

The Women in Andy Warhol’s Life, as Imagined by Hilton Als

by Elena Goukassian March 5, 2018

Like Warhol’s own work, Als’s characterizations appear one-dimensional at first sight, but on closer observation, they take on a much more profound meaning.

Posted inArt

A Collaborative Photobook by Richard Avedon and James Baldwin

by Elena Goukassian January 9, 2018March 4, 2018

Avedon and Baldwin’s 1964 photobook, with a new introduction by Hilton Als, resonates profoundly today.

Posted inArt

Glenn Ligon and Hilton Als Talk Color at LA’s Underground Museum

by Matt Stromberg October 11, 2017

For the Underground Museum’s ongoing discussion and performance series, Ligon and Als will talk about the impact of color in art and in the world.

Posted inArt

Hilton Als Curates Alice Neel’s Portraits of Life in Upper Manhattan

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 22, 2017

The exhibition at David Zwirner gallery features five decades’ worth of Neel’s paintings and drawings of people of color.

Posted inArt

An Emotional Retrospective for Hilton Als

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney April 12, 2016April 14, 2016

On March 2 the Artist’s Institute launched its latest season with an exhibition devised, curated, and installed by the writer and critic Hilton Als, an exhibition the institute describes as an “emotional retrospective.”

Posted inIn Brief

“The Artist’s Memory Is a Dangerous, Necessary Thing”

by Mostafa Heddaya July 18, 2014July 22, 2014

The New York Review of Books has published the writer Hilton Als’s excellent commencement speech this year at Columbia University’s School of the Arts this year.

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