Art
Visual art, exhibitions, installations, and the artists shaping contemporary culture.
Yeule's Practice Has Always Been Art First. Evangelic Girl Is a Gun Proves It.
Nat Ćmiel enrolled in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London in 2018. The program is not a music conservatory. It is a visual art...
Divide and Dissolve's Doom Has Always Been About What Gets Named
April 18, 2025, Divide and Dissolve released Insatiable on Bella Union, their fifth studio album and the first on a label outside the...
Toyin Ojih Odutola Builds the House and Fills It with the Dead
"Ile Oriaku" opened at Jack Shainman Gallery at 46 Lafayette Street in New York on May 6, 2025, and ran through July 18. It was Toyin Ojih...
Zanele Muholi and the Politics of the Black Gaze: Somnyama Ngonyama Rewrites the Visual Archive
The history of photography has never been politically neutral, and Zanele Muholi has spent the better part of two decades making that point...
Actress Has Been Designing the Architecture of Electronic Music Since 2008
Darren Cunningham, who records and performs as Actress, has been making some of the most formally rigorous electronic music in existence...
Dev Hynes and the Memory Machine: Blood Orange's Essex Honey
Dev Hynes, who records and performs as Blood Orange, has spent the last decade and a half building one of the most distinctly personal...
Kara Walker and the Shadow History of America
Kara Walker's silhouettes have been called disturbing, necessary, brilliant, and offensive, often by the same critics in the same breath....
Amy Sherald and the Gray That Holds Everything
Amy Sherald paints Black Americans in shades of gray. Not the skin, not the person, not the identity: she renders the physical surface of...
The House That Grief Built: Toyin Ojih Odutola's Dual Exhibition Reckons With Loss and Language
There is a particular kind of grief that does not announce itself. It settles into the body the way charcoal settles into paper: it goes...
Tschabalala Self Is Remaking What a Monument Can Look Like
There is a particular kind of authority that Tschabalala Self's figures carry. They take up space without apology. They sprawl and lean and...
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Paints People Who Do Not Exist and Makes You Feel Like You Know Them
There are no names attached to the figures in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings. They have no documented addresses, no histories you can...
Tau Lewis Stitches Black Diasporic Memory Into Monumental Beings
Tau Lewis was born in Toronto in 1993 and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her medium is textile sculpture, which is a phrase that does her...