eight verses for Lorraine O’Grady
Camille Bacon pays tribute to the late Lorraine O’Grady, who worked across performance, collage, photography, curatorial interventions, and writing.
Caribbean (9)
Mazola Wa Mwashighadi: A Practice In Placemaking
Tedecia Bromfield speaks with Mazola Wa Mwashigada on placemaking, diasporic concepts of Blackness, and the magic of found material in the Jamaican landscape.
Current Speed: Kathia St. Hilaire – Invisible Empires at Speed Art Museum, Louisville
Burnaway takes a close look at Current Speed: Kathia St. Hilaire – Invisible Empires at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
Analogous Ecologies: The Surreal and the Mundane in The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024) and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
In this Twang theme feature, Jordan Barrant considers the kindred histories of Black Caribbeans and Southerners depicted in The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024) and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023).
PORTENT by Laura Facey in Bellevue, St. Ann, Jamaica
Shannon Chen See reviews and unpacks the nuances of PORTENT, a new exhibition of work by Laura Facey in Bellevue, Jamaica.
Jodi Minnis Rolle: Vexing the Bahamian Hospitality Narrative
Natalie Willis Whylly shares a profile of multidisciplinary artist Jodi Minnis Rolle and her concerns around the history of the Bahamian hospitality industry.
Bypass Words, But Not the Body
For Burnaway’s series CRUSH, Michelle Santiago Cortés details the dance-drawings and improvisational mark-making of Awilda Sterling-Duprey.
The Memory of Roses: Recollections with Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter
Kristina Kay Robinson recollects on listening to Cowboy Carter, the changing cultural landscape of New Orleans, and the weight of water across belief and place in this CRUSH feature.
Pablo Guardiola’s Bloque de Tiempo (A Block of Time): An Annotated Analysis
In our next feature within the Annotations column, Noah Simblist and Pablo Guardiola go back and forth in extended dialogue about Guardiola’s work regarding Puerto Rico as an island and as a block of time.
