Edwidge Danticat

Haiti Reframed

By bringing to life on screen a neighborhood poised between trouble and joy, Gessica Généus’s Freda offers a richly textured dissent from infantilizing accounts of her country.

Remembering Michael Richards

The young artist was among those killed in the September 11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers, where he had a studio. Now, twenty years on, his work is enjoying its first major retrospective.

Open Letter: Release Otero Alcántara

The Cuban government is detaining the artist solely for expressing his ideas through his art and for his nonviolent defense of human rights. 

Mourning in Place

It’s hard to figure out how to mourn during a pandemic. Our mourning rituals have all been disrupted or taken away.