In the first few pages of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Police Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt, Orisanmi Burton sets the tone with Queen Mother Moore’s 1973 speech from Green Haven Prison. Moore explains that imprisoned Black people are experiencing re-captivity. Similar…
Maisha Maene’s short film Mulika (2022) opens with slow-moving shots of a desolate landscape. Filmed on the slopes Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the North Kivu province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and largely captured…
Lynn Book, Lit (2014–22). Color photographic triptych. 84.1 ✕ 118.9cm (33.11 ✕ 46.81 in). Lit was created for Book’s multimedia exhibition, Instructions for Deranging, by invitation for the 20th anniversary of Art Stays Festival of Contemporary…
Photo by Brandi Redd. No one knows what editing is, not even editors. There are few courses on the topic, and only a couple of useful, if scattershot, handbooks. Knowledge is usually passed along through apprenticeship.…
Rembrandt, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1659. Howard Belsey—the pretentious, arrogant, narcissistic professor in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty—loves to interrogate artworks. “What we’re trying to . . . interrogate here,” Howard remarks at the start of his seventeenth-century…
Photo of Mecija family in their first apartment in Canada. June 1978. Courtesy of Francisco and Emma Mecija. My parents migrated from the Philippines to Canada in the mid-1970s. My sisters and I were raised in…
Photo by sarah assi. Meditation has taught me what’s at stake in the exchange of breath. Exchange: derived from the Latin prefix “ex”—out, utterly; and “change” from the Latin cambire, or barter. Breathing is a type…
Installation view of no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art. From left to right: works by Miguel Luciano; Garvin Sierra Viega; Danielle De Jesus. Photograph by Marcos…
