Rianna Jade Parker

How a group of self-taught practitioners pioneered a national art form by mythologizing African traditions through religious divination

Artists and writers remember ‘the people’s poet’, whose prolific career foregrounded the power of the pen in engaging meaningful social commentary

On the occasion of his first solo show at Harper’s, New York, the Jamaican artist speaks to Rianna Jade Parker about his unique approach to colour and figuration in painting

Rianna Jade Parker on a new work from the artist’s first UK solo show

A group exhibition at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger draws attention to the unique positionality of Caribbean artists

Shot in Cambridge, the artist’s latest film interlaces histories of laziness, from Johnny Mercer to Audre Lorde

For her first UK exhibition at London’s Barbican, the artist builds a narrative of two lovers caught up in a matriarchal society

From a kaleidoscopic portrait of Alabama to a documentary about police violence in the UK, frieze contributors select four must-watch films 

A rarely seen documentary shows the UK's Black communities in the wake of two tragic incidences of police brutality towards unarmed Black mothers in 1985

As the artist’s inaugural show at Paula Cooper Gallery opens in New York, Rianna Jade Parker guides us through her filmmaking trajectory

The artist looks to the life of Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, to foster a kind of kinship you can literally hold

A guide to the best shows around town

The movement that is traditionally understood as white and privileged was more racially mixed than is commonly accepted

The Haitian-born artist discusses the climate crisis, losing his memory and belonging to a country of ruptures and profound dreaming

A force in the late ’80s and ’90s, the photographer and critic receives her first solo show in over 22 years at Autograph, London

After gaining UNESCO protected status, acknowledgement of the influential music genre is long overdue 

From the High Line Plinth to the Whitney Biennial and the Guggenheim, the artist’s sculptures celebrate the architecture of the Black female body

A 1979 televisual essay by the cultural theorist offers insight into black politics and representational struggle in the British media

At Autograph, London, Boswell’s first institutional exhibition reveals what it truly means to recover from trauma

‘Who’s Afraid of Barney Newman (1968) invokes a multiplicity of diasporic readings’