Art
Teju Cole’s “Tremor”
A review of the writer and photographer’s new novel about appropriation and the ethics of portrayal. (“Long Exposure,” The New Yorker)Teju Cole’s “Tremor”
Samuel Fosso’s Century in Selfies
A review of an exhibition of the photographer’s self-portraits in Princeton. (The New Yorker)Samuel Fosso’s Century in Selfies
Kehinde Wiley
A profile of the painter Kehinde Wiley, Barack Obama’s portraitist, who paints ordinary black people in the style of the Old Masters. I visited him in Brussels, where he was street-casting, at his studio in Williamsburg, and in Dakar, Senegal, at his luxorious Black Rock residency. (“The Painter and His Court,” The New Yorker)Kehinde Wiley
Marilyn Nance and FESTAC ’77
A review of the African-American photographer’s record of a pan-African festival in Lagos. (The New Yorker)Marilyn Nance and FESTAC ’77
Africa and the Harlem Renaissance
A review of the artist Isaac Julien’s “Statues Never Die” and the scholar Kobena Mercer’s “Alain Locke and the Visual Arts.” (The New Yorker)Africa and the Harlem Renaissance
Afro-Atlantic Histories
A review of “Afro-Atlantic Histories” at the National Gallery of Art. (The New Yorker)Afro-Atlantic Histories
“Reconstructions” at MOMA
Review of an exhibition on architecture and imagining black futures. (Art in America)“Reconstructions” at MOMA