Ian Bourland

Landing only months before the US midterm elections, it’s impossible not to understand the show foremost in the context of the Trumps and Kushners of the world

US true crime series Unsolved takes two formative pop cultural events to explore their concealed human stories and systemic narratives

From The X-Files to The Orville to Black Mirror: what role does sci-fi play in our age of fake news?

With the arrival of the first superhero film to feature a black lead since 1998's Blade, a reading list on black comic-book culture

‘A countercultural beacon’: Ian Bourland reflects on the artist’s remarkable, six-decade career

Various venues, New York, USA

A year marked by new visualizations, both controversial and celebrated, of the black body

The removal of the Confederate monuments in Baltimore shows decisiveness after years of inaction – already they stand as sites of counter-memory

Casey Kaplan, New York, USA

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA

A history of underground Black publishing, from W.E.B. Du Bois to #BlackLivesMatter

Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town & Johannesburg, and blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

Pace Gallery, New York, USA