When I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate ...

Throughout the film, Holman complicates the mechanisms of the close-up as a technique for accentuating intimacy—a window into ...

Najrin Islam. Najrin Islam is a writer, curator, and film programmer currently based in London. Her writings have featured in ...

Gervais Marsh. Dr. Gervais Marsh is a writer, curator, and scholar based in New York City, whose practice meditates on questions of relation, intimacy, and the limits of reconcili ...

Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though ...

Decolonization involves destruction and upheaval, but in equal measures is a process of creation—a radical world-building that imparts not only a political but cultural and ecological heritage. This ...

In Matthew Wong’s oil painting See You On the Other Side (2019), a figure in blue stands at the edge of a frozen landscape and gazes out at a house beside a mountain. A red bird hovers just off shore, ...

At this time when we are fighting an all out war against tyranny and oppression, it is extremely important that the picture of Negro women . . . be sharply drawn. —Elizabeth Catlett, 1945 application ...

Dawit L. Petros: I’ve always understood the need to balance the production or the study of visual cultural materials with textual and written materials. With the understanding that an object (like a ...

On August 29, 2023, the Globe and Mail published an article headlined “Toronto’s cash-strapped Artscape to enter receivership, end management of 14 artist facilities.” ...

Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective is an engrossing presentation of the late artist, who died young in 1995 and left behind paintings of alluring ambiguity: bound hands, women disrobing, and “corset ...

By centering her body in these works, including on the metaphorical “negotiating table,” Hatoum spotlights a neglected theater of the Lebanese Civil War, fought on and through women’s bodies. Moreover ...