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Off the Record Confronts Our Understanding of Objectivity

by Alexandra M. Thomas April 20, 2021April 20, 2021

A forceful rejection of neutrality, the Guggenheim exhibition unearths the deeply biased natures of media and government systems.

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Lorna Simpson’s Cut-Up Portraits Evoke the Complexity of Identity

by Kate Silzer June 27, 2020December 10, 2020

Composed of photographs culled from vintage Ebony magazines, the faces in these collages are reconstructed into new selves.

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Lorna Simpson Searches for Meaning in the Arctic Ice

by Seph Rodney June 20, 2019June 25, 2019

Darkening, an exhibition of Lorna Simpson’s glacial paintings, submerges us in an icy desert largely devoid of language and far from human habitation.

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Lorna Simpson’s Glowing Collages of Women and Heads of Hair

by Monica Uszerowicz June 12, 2018June 11, 2018

The artist’s collages feature portraits of women cut from advertisements, their tresses painted and collaged into pools of color that spread onto the page like oil spills.

Posted inOpinion

Marc Jacobs’s Tone-Deaf Appropriation of Dreadlocks

by Kyla McMillan September 19, 2016September 20, 2016

Marc Jacobs committed the most blatant act of cultural appropriation at this month’s New York Fashion Week.

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The Politics of Seeing, Being, and Visibility in Photography

by Seph Rodney June 20, 2016June 20, 2016

It doesn’t seem right to call the latest issue of Aperture — its first issue dedicated to African American lives as represented by the medium of photography — a magazine. It is a powerhouse book; it does so much heavy lifting.

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Stumbling upon Serendipity at the Havana Biennial

by Janelle Grace June 8, 2012June 13, 2012

I have never felt I more fully embodied the role of “cultural tourist” than when I visited the 11th Havana Biennial for its opening week.

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The Black List is A-Listed: An Interview with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

by Olympia Lambert February 24, 2010

Recently I had the opportunity to speak with photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders about The Black List: Volume III, his increasingly popular documentary series on the African American It-list, which premiered February 8, 2010, on HBO.

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