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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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 

The gothic tales of notorious racist H.P. Lovecraft provide source material for HBO’s new show about ‘the hauntedness of Black life’

In the director’s sweeping new Vietnam War film, it is never clear ‘who is the colonizer and who is the colonized’ 

The fifth season of Billions is a queasy portrait of inequality in the US, but it can be hard to look away

The new HBO series imagines a celebrity, Nazi-sympathizing president and election fraud in the 1940s 

From The Walking Dead to Stranger Things, frightening revivals ‘captured a bit of lost magic in a disenchanted world’ 

The artist’s moving portraits of ‘unallocated’ auto workers in Lordstown, Ohio, on view at the Renaissance Society, celebrate the power of unions as job losses hit US manufacturing