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Before coming on as the director of this film, I thought I understood Arthur Jafa’s practice. I had seen APEX and Love is the Message, the Message is Death, and saw AJ’s work as chronicling Black life ...

When I was first introduced to Hyeree, I fell in love with her work immediately. Given our shared background—we’re both East Asians living in the US, existing between two languages and two places—it’s ...

“How do we see ourselves represented?” asks artist Tommy Kha. “I think it’s a continuous performance, to constantly search for where do I stand in the picture?” The artists in this playlist draw from ...

Steel and glass populate artist Hannah Levy’s 2023 exhibition Crutch at Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York City, taking familiar materials, forms, and structures and making them strange, even ...

Clad in all-black, their faces obscured by oversized gorilla masks, “Frida Kahlo” and “Käthe Kollwitz” take to the streets as Guerrilla Girls to engage the public in their decades-long battle against ...

Joiri Minaya was born in 1990 in New York City, where she currently lives and works. She grew up in the Dominican Republic, earning Associate’s Degrees from La Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales in ...

On a rare snowy day in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, artist Rose B. Simpson assembles a maquette for a new public sculpture. The three small figures are models for the 12 concrete sculptures that ...

In her studio in New Jersey, artist Amy Sherald paints portraits that tell a story about American lives. Her face just inches away from a canvas, the artist carefully applies stroke after stroke, ...

Fingernails, karaoke YouTubers, grass jelly, make-up tutorials, and anti-war anthems all find themselves colliding in the work of artist Diane Severin Nguyen. Mixing and matching disparate elements, ...

The first ever artist-in-residence at famed Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, sculptor Heidi Lau channels personal history, colonial culture, and the spiritual world through her hands and ...