Meet the New Chair of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Kellie Jones, the Hans Hofman Professor of Modern Art, has big plans to center the arts in the department’s teaching, scholarship, and programming.
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Kellie Jones, the Hans Hofman Professor of Modern Art, has big plans to center the arts in the department’s teaching, scholarship, and programming.
CRP chair and associate professor Jeffrey Chusid, assistant professor of art Alexandro Segade, and associate professor of architecture Val Warke on how queer cultures occupy, redefine, and transform spaces ranging from personal to public.
Why Tourmaline, Chronicler of Queer and Trans Histories, Has Devoted Her Debut Solo Show to Self-Portraits of Fantastic Pleasure For her debut exhibition at Chapter NY, Tourmaline places herself at the center of tableaux about pleasure. Summer Azure (2020). Photo: Dario Lasagni, courtesy of Chapter NY. To encounter the work of filmmaker and artist Tourmaline is to encounter the work of a person who is enthralled by a meticulous chronicling of history. This is one of the first things that crosses my mind as I listen to Tourmaline speak about the research processes that she employs in order ...
Art Is Lost in This Town (1989). Photo courtesy of Postmasters Gallery. The emphasis on business is poisonous. Everybody needs to survive, but one hopes there would be some other levels of operating that are not just 100 percent determined by economic success. I have this idea of running a night school for collectors: re-education classes on curiosity replacing speculation. I could teach that for minimal compensation because, you know, “everybody needs to survive.” —Magda Sawon, owner and director, Postmasters Gallery School children enter the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Californi...