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In this feature for Burnaway’s SAWTOOTH STAR theme, Kristina Kay Robinson writes about the aesthetic and narrative interventions of early southern Black projectionists.
Lucy Sternbach reviews Puerto Rican artists Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Gloria Morillo’s collaborative film installation of Retiro for In Minor Keys at the 61st Venice Biennale.
For Burnaway’s SCHOOLHOUSE theme, Whitney Washington travels along the Alabama Barn Quilt Trail, reflecting on the traditional meaning-making behind quilt patterns and the tensions between identity, home, and history underlying the project.
For Burnaway’s SCHOOLHOUSE theme, Robert Alan Grand discusses the history and future of the folk school, touching on the influential, democratic John C. Campbell and Highlander Folk Schools.
In this conversation for STORM SIGNAL, Alexandra Martinez and Miami-based artist Sterling Rook discuss familial stories of survival and visual ambiguity in the artist’s spring 2026 exhibition, Shupingagua, at Tunnel Projects in Miami.
Daniel Fuller examines the dense, immersive qualities of L.V. Hull’s art-making as shown in the exhibition, L.V. Hull: Love Is a Sensation, a partnership with the L.V. Hull Legacy Center at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson.
In our inaugural STORM SIGNAL theme release, Jasmine Amussen discusses The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s hallucinatory, yet Southern Gothic, qualities, and compares the hit show to William Faulkner’s 1930 novel As I Lay Dying.
Courtney McClellan examines reproduction, materiality, and legacy in New York-based, Georgia-born artist Clare Hu’s weavings.
Jackson Markovic examines cultural difference and depictions of archetypal Southern art in the 2005 film Junebug.
