Art
Lauren Frances Adams offers three bodies of work that celebrate black female exceptionalism and expose the supporting roles of white women in US Confederate history and propaganda, offering a multifaceted site-specific, visual history lesson centered in Baltimore.
Art
Rather than etched on vinyl, tiny grooves were cut onto a medical X-ray, tracing shallow circles over the ghostly shapes of bones.
Film
Black Is the Color, a 50-minute documentary, offers a survey of African-American art from 1867 to today.
Books
Lynn Melnick’s poetry — particularly its themes of sexual abuse, rape culture, violence, sex work, and drug use — pushes the boundary between public and private.
Art
Douglas Florian’s choice of words reminds us how much our nation indulges in name-calling and name checks.
Art
Nakadate’s The Kingdom is haunted by grief and irrevocable loss.
Art
Mann’s historical and social explorations are anchored in her embrace of her identity as a Southerner.
Art
Colin Brant paints a peaceable kingdom of leopards, orangutans, owls, and parrots.
Art
Moyer’s new paintings revel in color and visual pleasure, scrambling distinctions between abstraction and representation.
Art
A century after the emergence of Dada, Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont's curated section is all about political collage.
Art
With 85 galleries this year, the New York art fair devoted to works on paper explores the large and small, the personal and political.
Film
In the documentary Leaning into the Wind, the celebrated sculptor and environmental artist muses on the impermanence of his art.