Books
The Scholar Who Rewrote Black Brazilian History
Beatriz Nascimento’s groundbreaking research defied dominant White Brazilian academic narratives, instead emphasizing Black political agency.
Review
Art
A Spanish Artist’s Dreamy Homages to Her Homeland
Undercutting dominant narratives of Spanish modernism, Delhy Tejero was part of a community of artists whose avant-garde work forged a new sense of national identity.
Books
Objects That Tell the History of LGBTQ+ Resistance
Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects serves less as a catalog and more as a continuation of a years-long effort to tell a millennia-long history.
Art
The Sartorial Rivals of Waterloo
The 1st Duke of Wellington was always very particular about the way he turned himself out — as was his nemesis Napoleon, of course.
Film
Film Suggests We Call Indiana Jones What He Is: Grave Robber
Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera (2023) resists Hollywood’s compulsion to romanticize the Western archaeologist.
Art
London’s National Portrait Gallery Catches Up to Black Portraiture
The Time is Always Now emphasizes the continuing importance of Black identity, visibility, and recognition in predominantly White society.
Art
A Mid-Century Painter Showed a World Out of Kilter
In the Luigi Zuccheri’s pastoral scenes, a menagerie of oversized creatures, plants, fruits, and vegetables dwarf the humans with whom they share the canvas.
Art
Look to the Past and Fear for the Future
Artist Cao Fei asks us to consider how long the benefits of new technologies may last, and what will remain after they’re gone.
Art
Sibylle Ruppert’s Dark Fantasy
In Ruppert’s work, vices surround, engulf, and even penetrate her human protagonists.
Books
A Palestinian Poet’s Fragmented Grief
In Border Wisdom, Ahmad Almallah embraces the fissures that language cannot mend.
Art
The Horrors of Being a Middle Age Woman in a Capitalist Society
Shana Moulton’s female protagonist in Meta/Physical Therapy is charmingly overwhelmed by the small mundanities of contemporary life.
Art
Nora Turato Makes Collective Angst Creative
The artist unveils the frenzied, emotional underpinnings of consumption, transforming collective angst into her own creative product.