Features For the Enigmatic Conceptual Artist Cameron Rowland, Financial Systems Are an Artistic Medium Rowland is exposing the institutions and corporations that continue to profit from slavery. By Zoé Samudzi Oct 17, 2023 12:05 pm
Reviews Restitution’s First Wave: Bénédicte Savoy’s “Africa’s Struggle for Its Art” A new book details how the repatriation debates got their start in postcolonial Africa. By Zoé Samudzi Apr 7, 2022 12:42 pm
Reviews Seeing Blackly: Tina Campt’s A Black Gaze Campt's new book proposes a theory of art as a deliberate challenge to social-political reality. By Zoé Samudzi Aug 18, 2021 10:38 am
Features Karimah Ashadu’s Films Honor the Everyday Labor of African Workers The filmmaker refuses to be an interlocutor, instead affording the different African workers the opportunity for first-person storytelling. By Zoé Samudzi May 26, 2021 11:25 am
Columns The ICE Man Painteth George W. Bush paints over his flawed policies in a new book of immigrant portraits. By Zoé Samudzi Apr 6, 2021 10:18 am
Features The Paradox of Plenty In installations and performances, Otobong Nkanga mourns colonialist violence and resource exploitation in Africa. By Zoé Samudzi Feb 16, 2021 10:57 am
Features The Sculptural Politics of Cacao How the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League is disrupting the global supply chain of culture. By Zoé Samudzi Sep 15, 2020 3:48 pm
Features In a Riveting Film, Telepathic Revolutionaries and a Brooklyn Noise Band Avenge Racist Murders We've seen countless images of violence against the oppressed, often in the name of raising awareness. Why are there so many fewer depictions of acts of vengeance and revenge and fighting back against the powerful? By Zoé Samudzi Dec 6, 2019 8:11 pm
Features Nicole Miller’s New Film Compares African American Resilience to the Bodily Fortitude of Astronauts The ability to withstand space travel is juxtaposed with black children's far less romanticized capacity to endure racism. By Zoé Samudzi Oct 24, 2019 3:54 pm