For sixteen minutes and thirty-three seconds, I watched Deborah-Joyce Holman’s film Close-Up (2024), relinquishing anticipation for what may happen next and settling into an ease of the ordinary scene ...

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 reconciliation. Guided by a desire to foster ...

What do you see when you look at pictures of President Trump’s cabinet?” asks writer David French in an interactive web ...

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 ...

They arrive at my Salt Lake City apartment in the middle of the afternoon on the tenth of September, 2016, and we’re on the road within minutes. Dani and Sheilah, both art professors in Ohio, are ...

Somewhere in the stratosphere between Ohio and New York, cumbersome bodies bumping against pockets of turbulence, my mind turned to the title of Lucie Brock-Broido’s poem, “You Have Harnessed Yourself ...

Sometimes the photographer Robert Andy Coombs operates his camera’s shutter with his mouth. Sometimes, he plays on the much-loved trope of self-portraiture, keeping the ...

It was with a frisson of anticipatory delight that I crossed the threshold of Tom Burr’s warehouse in Connecticut, two hours northeast of New York City. I was there to meet the artist for a tour of ...

The suburb of Westland, Michigan, where Mike Kelley grew up, may be one of the only cities in the US renamed after a mall.

Growing up with a mother who overidentified with the home, I pulled away from ideas of the domestic in my own caricatured understanding of it. Therefore, it would be typical of me to be more ...