Brian Whitener on the art of collective transformation.
Author: Brian Whitener
A Call to Artists
Writing and artwork by Cauleen Smith, Charles Gaines, Edgar Arceneaux, Howardena Pindell, Michael Ray Charles, and Glenn Ligon.
With Each Other
Nijah Cunningham reviews Nicole R. Fleetwood’s Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
One day I will make a mace, but for now I have a mouth
Elana Mann makes protective talismans for our truth-challenged times
The Art of the COVID Copy
The practice of re-creating masterworks goes viral
Feral Intimacies, Part II—our homes are inedible
What we can learn from termites on surviving hostile conditions
How Internalized White Supremacy Manifests for My BIPOC Students in Art School
Fighting microaggressions in the classroom
Red Windows on the World
Jennifer Dorothy Lee reviews Drawing from Life by Christine I. Ho
Feral Intimacies, Part I—Super Furs for the Super Futures 77: Beavereavement
An animated zine on inspiration, grief…and parachuting beavers
The Weight of Matter: Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Glenn Adamson in Conversation
How the materiality of clay mirrors the body
Holding Space: A Roundtable Conversation on Trauma and Teaching in the Museum
Four museum educators on creating safe spaces for communities
Ambient Think Tanks
Ina Blom reviews Pamela M. Lee’s book on the aesthetics of a political institution