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Features / Tourmaline Summons the Queer Past

Tourmaline’s films speak a simple truth: Black, queer and trans people were always here and always will be

BY Muna Mire | 16 OCT 20

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Features / Nancy Baker Cahill's Ghostly Monuments

The artist's augmented-reality works are freeing public sculpture from the ‘ideology of control’

BY Elvia Wilk | 15 SEP 20

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Features / Blackness and Post-Cinema: John Akomfrah and the Otolith Group in Conversation

During the turbulent summer of 2020, the filmmakers met to discuss contemporary filmmaking and decentring the human

BY John Akomfrah AND The Otolith Group | 23 SEP 20

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Features / The Exquisite Maximalism of Lucy McKenzie

With a retrospective at Munich’s Museum Brandhorst, McKenzie gleans political ideologies from the polishes and veneers of our world

BY Aaron Peck | 20 AUG 20

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Features / A Different Kind of Healing

Ex voto-like works by Jesse Darling, Julia Philips, Diamond Stingily and the late Donald Rodney imagine a world ordered differently

BY Sinéad Gleeson | 07 SEP 20

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Features / Ben Lerner on Margaux Williamson’s Hard-Earned Magic

The Canadian painter’s new work offers a ‘vivid experience of perception without vivid percepts’

BY Ben Lerner | 11 SEP 20

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Features / Glitching the Master’s House: Legacy Russell and Momtaza Mehri in Conversation

The author of Glitch Feminism on correcting the cyberfeminist canon, the Black trauma at the root of memes and why online space is still ‘real’

BY Momtaza Mehri AND Legacy Russell | 19 AUG 20

Black Deutschland

In the light of the global push for racial equality and justice, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Natasha A. Kelly, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka and Susan Neiman draw attention to the overlooked history of Afro-Germany and what we can learn from it.

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Features / Why Germany Is In Need of a Racial Turn

Germany's Green Party wants to get rid of the word ‘race’ in the German constitution. Natasha A. Kelly writes about what actually needs to change in Germany

BY Natasha A. Kelly | 30 SEP 20

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Features / Partisan’s Songs

Can the story of performer and activist Paul Robeson help us reconcile universalism with Black progress?

BY Susan Neiman | 30 SEP 20

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Features / Paving the Way for Institutional Changes

A look at Germany’s exhibition landscape shows the importance of identifying blind spots

BY Mahret Ifeoma Kupka | 30 SEP 20

One Take

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One Takes / Thao Nguyen Phan Paints a Dying World

In 'Perpetual Brightness', Phan’s ailing animal becomes a metaphor for a culture, and a world, adrift on the verge of ecological disaster.

BY Maika Pollack | 25 SEP 20

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One Takes / Jessica Lynne Revisits Ming Smith’s ‘Amina and Amiri Baraka (Lovers)’

Smith – the subject of a new monograph by Aperture – evokes music and pace through her use of the blur

BY Jessica Lynne | 20 AUG 20

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One Takes / Lynne Tillman Revisits An-My Lê’s ‘Small Wars’

In Reenacting Scenes from the Vietnam War, Le Upends – and Subverts – Landscape

BY Lynne Tillman | 14 AUG 20