Today, Your Native Hosts
In this essay republished from last year, Jasmine Amussen considers the work of Native artist Hock E Aye VI, or Edgar Heap of Birds, and the annual National Day of Mourning on the fourth Thursday in November.
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Ghost in the Machine: Jacolby Satterwhite at Mitchell-Innes & Nash
Madeleine Seidel investigates the analog, digital, and artistic “haunting” of Jacolby Satterwhite’s recent exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Landscapes and Videotapes
Artist Emmalea Russo lays bare the fuzzy, dreamy topographies of love and intimacy within Southern landscapes and Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape.
This is a Mean World : Lil Buck’s Nobody Knows
Yves Jeffcoat meditates and celebrates with the new short film Nobody Knows from Memphis dancer Lil Buck.
Commonwealth at the ICA at VCU, Richmond
In Richmond, Maura Callahan considers the curatorial ambitions and institutional contradictions framing Commonwealth, a group exhibition at the ICA at VCU that examines the intertwined colonial histories of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico.
I Wanna Do Bad Things With You
Jasmine Amussen revisits the decadent Southern Gothic pleasures and rural realities of HBO’s True Blood.
Go Down, Death: On Keisha Rae Witherspoon’s T
Ade J. Omotosho sees new ways of documenting Black grief in Miami filmmaker Keisha Rae Witherspoon’s T, which won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year.
The Truth About Dolls
Margaret Jane Joffrion finds a way back to childhood and a path to heaven at the Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts in Louisville.
Diaphanous, Airy, and Evanescent: Hasani Sahlehe in Augusta
Ade J. Omotosho considers rhythm and abstraction in painter Hasani Sahlehe’s new work at Westobou Gallery in Augusta, Georgia.