“Most learned spirits, I must confess, I hated jazz,” said the artist Todd Gray, who had just entered the theater at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica as part of a procession that included a…
Saturday night in the basement of the Miami Beach Edition hotel—that one place with the ice skating rink and the bowling alley inside of the club (I pathetically recognized it from my Instagram…
“The Negative Hand” is currently on view at Anonymous Gallery in Mexico City. The group exhibition features work from 15 artists and evaluates how individual gestures and marks connect to…
Are African-American fine artists today free from pressures to perform in specifically (but “acceptably”) “black” ways, as determined by a mostly white audience? According to the critique implicit in…