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A CULTURAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
words by Nana Oforiatta-Ayim
Growing up, I had a mythic imagination of England, a place of sliced white bread, of rolling glades and hillsides, girls in straw boater hats, the Beatles, marmalade, a hand-bag toting [...]
NICHOLAS HLOBO
essay by Tracy Murinik
Over the past, prolific decade, Nicholas Hlobo has engaged in richly enigmatic conversations with his audience that explore themes of sexual and cultural identity via the suggestiveness of materiality that compose his [...]
LYNETTE YIADOM–BOAKYE
interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist
HANS ULRICH OBRIST In your paintings you have a very clear methodology, which is actually quite conceptual. It sounds like, in a sort of On Kawara way, a painting a day. Can you talk about this? It seems [...]
ELVIRA DYANGANI OSE
interview by Carson Chan
CARSON CHAN You were recently appointed Curator of International Art at Tate Modern and, given your expertise in African art, you will be contributing to Tate’s ambitions to expand its reach on the [...]
ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS
interview by Catherine Wood
CATHERINE WOOD Your dances seem, alternately, like very private passages of thought and deliberately brash “showtime.” What is relationship between your “inside” and “outside” when it comes to inventing and [...]
155 FREEMAN
interview by Chris Wiley
CHRIS WILEY To begin, can you each describe the impetus behind your projects, and how they first came about? LIGHT INDUSTRY Light Industry began in 2008. At that time, we were thinking about how New York [...]
THE RESURGENCE OF R&B
words by Tim Small
When, a few years from now, we look back at what’s happening now in pop music, we won’t be able to escape discussions of the resurgence of R&B. The contemporary renaissance of smooth sounds and soulful [...]
CAMP + DANDYISM = NEO-CAMP
words by Chris Sharp
Soft, pure and uninflected colors. Lavender, yellow, baby blue. Peaceful interiors and the decorative accoutrements that populate them. Everything sharply delineated [...]
