CRITICAL REFLECTIONS - Artforum International
This week, the editors celebrate the groundbreaking Black feminist scholar and author bell hooks, revisiting an essay on writing she contributed to Artforum’s November 1994 issue.bell hooks changed lives and minds—radically and compassionately—as a teacher, an activist, a thinker, and an author of thirty or so books. It stands to reason that one so prolific must have found pleasure in her craft, but according to hooks, her calling was deeper. In “Critical Reflections,” an essay she published in the magazine in 1994, she describes the luminosity, the transcendence, that moves her to w...