Interview

Interview

Rethinking the Archive of Black Visual Culture with Deborah Willis

The photographer, curator, and academic founded the Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU to animate conversations about the archive of African American imagery from the 19th century to today.

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An Archive Restores and Resurrects Hollywood’s Earliest Indie Films

The UCLA Film & Television Archive is restoring the work of these short-lived, largely forgotten independent studios that operated between the late 1920s and mid-1950s.

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A Performance Artist Chronicles the History of Pornography in the Public Sphere

In her new solo piece, Mette Ingvartsen unravels taboos onstage by reenacting key moments in the history of porn.

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“Female Pain Is Fetishized But Never Vindicated”: An Artist Probes the Politics of Women's Bodies

Izdihar Afyouni investigates the ethical and psychological implications of racial and genetic profiling by subverting the process of accumulating race-differentiated data.

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A Museum Architect Sees Himself as a Matchmaker Between Artists and Art Lovers

Kulapat Yantrasast, who is designing the expansion for San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, prefers his museum designs to "take a backseat" to the art and visitors.

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Finding Joy at the Carnegie International: An Interview with Curator Ingrid Schaffner

The Carnegie International may be the oldest biennial in North America, but this year's curator is trying something new.

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UCLA Study Holds Smithsonian Accountable for Better Institutional Latino Representation

A new study evaluates Latino representation across the institution. One of the authors, Chon Noriega, discusses the results and why they are indicative of a widespread problem in the art world.

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Images of Truth from Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony and What They Mean

The images emerging from the Christine Blasey Ford hearing tell us a lot, but what?

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Contemporary Arab Cinema Series Looks Past Headlines to Realities of the Region

Opening Saturday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, ANA features a selection of movies reflecting the political and social realities of the Arab world, from Palestine to Tunisia.

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"Being Born Black in America Is a Political Act": An Interview With Senga Nengudi

In advance of her first retrospective outside the US, avant-garde artist Senga Nengudi discusses her emergence onto an international stage after a long career.

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Black Feminist Literature at the NY Art Book Fair: An Interview with the Free Black Women's Library

Artist and librarian OlaRonke Akinmowo has collected over 1,000 books written by Black women to assemble the interactive biblio installation.

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At This Year’s São Paulo Biennial the Curator Prioritizes Feeling Over Discourse

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro discusses the impact of rejecting overwrought political themes in a show that welcomes everyone to slow down and focus on their own experience of the art.