Reviews

Steve McQueen at the Tate Modern: Cinematics of Touch, Flesh, and Embodiment

Steve McQueen’s seven-minute, ironically titled Static (2009) is the first of fourteen works I encounter…

Image of artist Dozie Kanu. Kanu's eyes are closed as he poses serenely against a backdrop of trees. He is wearing a black collared shirt.
Dozie Kanu’s Sculptures Create an Ambiguous Visual Vocabulary

How does one go beyond the confines of iconography to produce a new visual language…

Black Fatherhood Photographed

Off the grid from the usual New York City gallery circuit, the photographer Zun Lee’s…

There is A Kingdom

Walking into the exhibition room on the lower ground floor of the Tyburn Gallery in…

Reflections on Black Masculinities at Gallery CA in Baltimore

“… by the time you read this, I will be even blacker.”- Amiri Baraka “Loyalty,…

Seeing History at The Jamaica Biennial

It is said that when Jamaican entrepreneur and gold miner George Stiebel built what was…

The Black Presidential Imaginary

The Presidential Library Project: The Black Presidential Imaginary, an exhibition on view at the Hyde…

Kara Walker’s Sainthood

What can satisfy the souls of bodies that are imprinted with pain so deep it…

Hammer Projects: Simone Leigh

In the small town of Natchez, Mississippi, diners at a restaurant called Mammy’s Cupboard enjoy…

The Intimacies Of Black Womanhood

Public Displays of Privacy celebrates Black women while perforating formal ideas about the intersectionality of…