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

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

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

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 ...

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.” ...

Pacita Abad, the Filipina artist who roamed the world like a traveling bard, was twenty-four when she left home in 1970. By the time she died at fifty-eight, she had gone on more adventures than the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shelly’s personae are disturbingly elaborate and just as self-contradictory, confusing, and multilayered as the reality we live in, largely because they often come from real-life experiences. They ...