Curators Picks: Meg Turner
Jordan Amirkhani on Meg Turner in New Orleans.
Dr. Jordan Amirkhani
Dr. Jordan Amirkhani is an art historian, critic, and educator currently based in Washington, D.C.. She serves as a Professorial Lecturer in Art History at American University and is a regular contributor to Artforum, Momus, and Daily Serving, among other publications. In 2017, she was an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers grantee for short-form writing.
Articles (4)
Shutdown: Bill Traylor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Dr. Jordan Amirkhani considers what it means when the first major retrospective dedicated to an American artist born into slavery is interrupted by a government shutdown.
John Akomfrah Film “Precarity” Tells the Story of Jazz Musician Buddy Bolden at the Nasher at Duke
Since the early 1980s, British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has offered up some of the strongest aesthetic responses to the intersecting discourses of history, identity, and culture for those excluded from power. Alongside such famed New Left intellectuals as Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall who through their work made it impossible to ignore the role … Continued