In the spring of 2015 there were, by chance, two related shows at Chelsea galleries next door to each other: Ralph Humphrey: Conveyance (paintings 1974-1977) at Garth Greenan Gallery and Blinky …
I fell in love with Amy Winehouse when I first heard her Back To Black album. I assumed she was a middle-aged African American woman—and (like many others) was amazed to find she was a young …
Early in their relationship, Cortez wrote poems dedicated to some of Edwards’s “Lynch Fragment” series of sculptures. Here, many decades later, he reciprocates, by dedicating a new “Lynch …
When Raphael Rubinstein asks me to write an article about Chitra Ganesh for the Art Lies section of Gulf Coast, which he is guest-editing, I reflexively oblige before I’ve even investigated her …
As bookstores close in ever larger numbers all over the world and as libraries, great and small, cede more and more of their square footage to computer work stations and touch screens, the former …
...after reading Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, we searched online for copies of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things and found a 1743 two-volume set with broken …
Selected images, including Project Row Houses Installation and Lawndale Art Center Mural Project, Houston, TX.
Otabenga Jones & Associaes looks to the history of black power movements from the 1960s through the 1980s to edify their ties to the past, to continue successful methods of community action, …
Ending language dominance requires resources, patience, and tremendous willingness to work together with others in ways that are not always comfortable. To construct a space where no language …
Fruit is many things for many people...
By including the car, Tossin, like an archivist...
Amy Powell moderates a conversation between Zinab Sedira and Ranjana Khanna regarding "the subtle persistence of struggles over nationhood, asylum, cultural identity, and language" in Sedira's …