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Ian Bourland

Ian Bourland is a critic and associate professor of art history at Georgetown University, USA. He writes widely on art, pop culture and aesthetics, and has published two books, Bloodflowers (Duke University Press, 2019) and Blue Lines (Bloomsbury, 2019).

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, two exhibitions depict 19th-century art history through an updated lens

BY Ian Bourland |

At the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, the two South African artists present multi-media works that memorialize anti-Apartheid resistance

BY Ian Bourland |

At von ammon co, Washington, DC, the artist presents multi-media sculptures and photographs that appropriate the visual language of the international financial system

BY Ian Bourland |

MTV's The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist is supposed to celebrate art as such, but traps its players in the same tropes they typically oppose

BY Ian Bourland |

The artist’s new film, Powwow People, recreates the Indigenous dance gatherings that play a role in Native community formation

BY Ian Bourland |

At Casey Kaplan, New York, the South African artist transforms everyday materials into colossal tapestries inspired by movements that characterize the dances of his homeland

BY Ian Bourland |

The auteur inverts Hollywood genre tropes in an alien invasion romp that questions what we see and believe

BY Ian Bourland |

The artist’s monument Antelope (2022) – a tribute to Pan-Africanist and anticolonial rebel John Chilembwe – simultaneously reinstates the genre while tweaking its meaning

BY Ian Bourland |

At the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), Mexico City, the art/activism group presents a large installation in support of Indigenous rights

BY Ian Bourland |

Kellen Johnson speaks to Ian Bourland about how his work on the museum’s security staff has informed his decisions for curating a show at the BMA

BY Kellen Johnson AND Ian Bourland |

Ian Bourland speaks to the writer about the persistence of university narratives and what it means to write novels in 2022

BY Ian Bourland AND Julia May Jonas |

The series reboot is a solemn reminder of the tribulations that come from being under the voluntary and constant scrutiny of the roving lens

BY Ian Bourland |

At Alexander Gray Associates, New York, the artist presents a suite of new mixed-media canvases that continue her formal and social investigations into geometric abstraction

BY Ian Bourland |

A promising new gallery showcases the artistic vitality of Maryland’s industrial seaport city

BY Ian Bourland |

At the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, the artist presents a site-responsive project that looks at the fraught history of post-slavery labour practices across the Virginia countryside

BY Ian Bourland |

How contemporary Native artists are evading recognition and visibility for a more 'speculative indigenous futurism'

BY Ian Bourland |

Skaka King's film on the life and assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton exceptionally examines the ever-present interplay between race and capital

BY Ian Bourland |

With the US spy agency’s web redesign, Ian Bourland looks at the revolving door between the arts, entertainment and US policy

BY Ian Bourland |

The LA gallery partners with TRII to present an online show on the ‘counterhistories’ of Black experience, but should we ask more of galleries in their antiracist efforts?

BY Ian Bourland |

At von ammon co., Washington, D.C., the artist presents a series of new-media works that further his ‘New Peace’ polemics against the West’s exploitation of the natural world 

BY Ian Bourland |