How many ways to say—and how many voices to call—systemic racism; to say unyielding white supremacy; to say invisibility that goes unremarked; to say denial of personhood? Keep Reading
Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman, the New York-based artist, has been writing reviews, essays and other kinds of criticism for 15 years, but she has only now brought out her first book. Keep Reading
An Interview with Stan Douglas
If Stan Douglas weren’t a filmmaker, video artist and photographer, he’d be a writer. He thinks like a writer. When he talks about his projects and bodies of work, how they come into being and how they develop, it is like listening to a novelist outlining a plot, setting a scene or describing a character. He provides a narrative frame in which stories and characters present and configure themselves, often in complicated situations. Keep Reading
“Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death” directed by Arthur Jafa
Arthur Jafa’s unparalleled seven-and-a-half-minute-long video opens and closes with two kinds of Black hero. Keep Reading
Dionne Brand and the Making of Language
Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk, 2018, subtitled an Ars Poetica in 59 Versos, has two characters, the author and the clerk. Their interaction is an inventory of complex disagreements and antagonisms. Keep Reading
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