The Harlem Renaissance was a globally networked movement of sprawling self-determination energized by the new modalities of Black subjectivity.
Zoë Hopkins
Zoë Hopkins studies Art History and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art
Don’t come to Unnamed Figures expecting to see pictures of Black people sitting comfortably alongside words like “empowerment” or “excellence.”
Emanoel Araújo’s World-Making Art
The relentless dynamism of Araújo’s sculptures and assemblages stir up a visual rhythm that is at once elegant and entropic.
Kapwani Kiwanga Uses Daylight to Expose Racial Surveillance
Kapwani Kiwanga invites viewers to look with only the quiet glow of natural light seeping in through the skylights, illuminating a nuanced way of seeing race.
The Frenzied Cacophony of Adam Pendleton
For the artist, history doesn’t simply settle for repeating itself but jolts forward, stammers, pauses for breath, weaves around itself.
In Swirling Canvases, Gareth Nyandoro Expresses the Rhythms of Labor
Teeming with energy, Nyandoro’s works express a disquieting otherworldliness, suspended at the fragile cusp between reality and dreams.
Precious Okoyomon Envelops Us in the Textures of Black Mourning
At Performance Space New York, Okoyomon enables a sense of communion amid unrelenting loss.