Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to ...

Elizabeth Wiet. Elizabeth Wiet is a writer and editor based in New York. She is currently deputy editor at Topical Cream and contributing editor at Bidoun. Her writing has appeare ...

At three intervals throughout Vijay Masharani’s eighteen-minute video Good Attack (2021), the camera fixates on a sign ...

Mimi Howard. Mimi Howard is a writer and critic based in New York whose work explores contemporary art and the legacies of ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

And, like the world, a lunatic asylum is a mosaic of the passions. —An asylum doctor in the Sarthe, 1837Upon discovering an illness, it is ...

Every five or six years, the painter Margaux Williamson quits painting. In these moments, she thinks she might not go back. But something always comes shuddering darkly up – an instinct, a distant ...

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.” ...

Within the flood of new trans memoirs and books offering their definitive takes on trans theory in the past few years, I gratefully found hannah baer’s book, Trans Girl Suicide Museum (Hesse Press, ...