Kristina Kay Robinson challenges theoretical understandings of photography and discusses the potential for a different, distinctly Black form of image-making in the work of Torkwase Dyson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and others.
Burnaway takes a Close Look at Meg Turner’s Here and Now at Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans.
Curator Daniel Fuller profiles the late artist Tina Girouard, a key figure in the 1970s New York art scene who later relocated to her native Louisiana.
Editor Logan Lockner introduces a series of stories responding to the Slave Rebellion Reenactment initiated by artist Dread Scott outside New Orleans last November.
Tracing a personal journey along the reenactors’ path, New Orleans editor-at-large Kristina Kay Robinson raises questions about how to make art that respects the lives—and deaths—of the enslaved.
New Orleans-based artist Ron Bechet recounts his experiences participating in the Slave Rebellion Reenactment organized by Dread Scott in New Orleans late last year.
Ra Malika Imhotep unpacks the ironies, limitations, and joys of playing a rebellious slave in Dread Scott’s Slave Rebellion Reenactment last fall.
Kristina Kay Robinson explores the “cinematic third space” developed by Ghanaian-American filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu in works on view in New Orleans.
Two exhibitions at Tulane’s Newcomb Art Museum draw connections between the adverse effects of environmental racism in Flint, Michigan, and Gordon Plaza in New Orleans.
