Books
A Poet's “Almost Obscene” Devotion to Beauty
The poems of Raúl Gómez Jattin — by turns agile, charming, intimate, and dark — have long been pushed out of sight.
Reviews
Art
Artists Pay Homage to Histories Preserved and Forgotten
As Yet and Still to Come points to the precariousness of time and the selectiveness of archives.
Art
Confronting Hate Chronicles the Virus of Prejudice
The Fordham exhibition spotlights centuries of hierarchical structures designed to dehumanize Black and Jewish people and question their right to be equal citizens.
Art
Alexander Tovborg Seeks the Sacred in the Aesthetic
Kirken works because modern galleries have quasi-religious qualities, with white walls and empty spaces creating an atmosphere for contemplation.
Art
A Piece of Puerto Rico in Chicago
Edra Soto's art brings with it the fabulous look and feel of tropical architectural solutions but not always the pain and difficulty of diasporic life.
Art
How Long Must We Sing This Song?
Dread Scott channels Nina Simone through works that sing of pain and endurance.
Art
Ode to Yvonne Jacquette
Along with Lois Dodd and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Jacquette successfully pushed back against Minimalism and Conceptual Art.
Art
Kemar Keanu Wynter Cooks Up an Abstract Feast
The Brooklyn-born artist introduces new forms to his ongoing archive of Caribbean heritage and cuisine.
Art
Remembering a Giant of Japanese Painting
Nearly 50 years after Setsuko Mitsuhashi's early death, her legacy lives on and in the hearts of anyone who sees her art.
Film
Workers Are Mad as Hell and Won't Take It Anymore
Director Sean Claffey's Americonned foregrounds real stories and the ripple effects that place working-class people in crisis.
Art
Richard Mayhew's Visionary Mindscapes
Mayhew has not been embraced by the art world because the trajectory he has pursued challenges the categories to which Black artists are consigned.
Art
Christ, Cocks, and All That Jazz
Like a page out of Sigmund Freud’s therapy notebook, all the main protagonists of Agata Słowak’s paintings are the artist herself.