february 2024 edition.
Sounds
- Happy Apple, “It Will Be”
- Hearing the Americas
- Elle Cordova, “Bernadette”
- Kristin Hersh, Cold Pond Road
- By The Waterhole with Stephan Meidell, “Boll Weevil Holler”
- Max Roach, M’Boom
- Jim White, All Hits: Memories
Words
- Phyllis Grant, “How David Bouley Changed the Culinary World and Me,” Esquire, 15 February 2024
- Andrea Holliday, “In the Cathedral of Sculpture: The Last Days and Years of Richard Hunt,” New City Art, 1 February 2024
- Célestin Badibanga Ne Mwine, “Emergence of a New Congolese Art,” Afterall 55/56, 29 January 2024
- AO Scott, “There’s Always Been Trouble in ‘The Groves of Academe’: How a 1950s novel explains the crisis in higher education,” New York Times, 31 January 2024
- Peter Linebaugh, “E.P. Thompson at 100,” CounterPunch, February 2, 2024
- Kenan Malik, “What a Legendary Historian Tells Us about the Contempt for Today’s Working Class,” The Observer, 4 February 2024
- Daniel Dylan Wray, “Cult singer-songwriter Bill Fay: ‘I didn’t leave the music business, the music business left me!’,” The Guardian, 22 February 2024
- Maxine Sibihwana, “The African Accent and the Colonial Ear: In Western films set in Africa, misrepresentations of spoken language can harmfully homogenize the cultural nuances of diverse nations,” MUBI Notebook, 10 November 2023
- Vivian Goldman, “Bob Marley: ‘Firebrand, poet and heart-throb’: how the film One Love captures the truth about Bob Marley: I was at the reggae superstar’s side before and after he escaped assassination. The new film took me back to this time, of love triangles, London punks and cold war conflict,” The Guardian, 9 February 2024
- Jude Rogers, “‘Music is the language of the world’: how a Syrian refugee became the toast of the Irish folk scene,” The Guardian, 20 February 2024
- Mitch Therieau, “Passionate Kisses: The Soundtrack at CVS,” Paris Review, 30 August 2023
- Austin McCoy, “It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop: The many educations of rap,” The Baffler, January 2024
- Gregory D. Smithers, “Smithers on Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History,” H-AmIndian H-Net: Network on American Indian Studies, January 2024
- Morgan Bimm, Kate Galloway, and Amy Skjerseth. “Podcasts and Popular Music,” UC Press Blog, 14 February 2024
- Jonas Bakkeli Eide, “The Making of an Anticolonial Culture: An Interview with Ismay Milford,” Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, 19 February 2024
“Walls”
- Rose B. Simpson, Counterculture @ John Michael Kohler Arts Center
- Michael Rakowitz, Listening back to Fragments @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- Ghislaine Leung, Holdings @ Renaissance Society
- Native America: In Translation @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology @ Block Museum
- David Goldblatt, No Ulterior Motive @ Art Institute of Chicago
- John Seal, Single Landscapes @ Harawik
- Erik Lindman Helian @ Peter Blum
- Lydia Ourahmane, 108 Days @ MACBA
- Eight Degrees: Contemporary Art on the Forest @ Bildmuseet
- Hayv Kahraman, The Foreign in Us @ Moody Center for the Arts
- Mary Weatherford, Sea and Space @ Gagosian
- Sung Tieu @ Oakville Galleries
- Tarikki Swanson @ Oakville Galleries
- Janet Biggs, Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape @ Everson Museum of Art
- Sana Musasama, Returning to Ourselves @ Everson Museum of Art
- Karla Ekaterine Canseco, Grietas de Acero (Steel Fissures) @ Murmurs
- Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium @ Gallery 400
- A Love Supreme: Norman Teague @ Elmhurst Art Museum
- Dorothea Lange: Seeing People @ National Gallery
- Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore: Giants of Modern Art @ Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Southern/Modern @ Frist Art Museum
- Color Photographs from the New Deal (1939-1943) @ Carriage Trade
- Zona Maco @ Pace Gallery Mexico City
- For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960 @ The Warehouse
- The Art of Assemblage @ Michael Rosenfeld
- William Brickel, Was It Ever Fair @ Kohn Gallery
- Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial @ Crocker Art Museum
- The Flesh of the Earth @ Hauser and Wirth New York
- No One Thing: David Smith, Late Sculptures @ Hauser and Wirth New York
- RETROaction (Part Two) @ Hauser and Wirth LA
- Catherine Goodman, New Works @ Hauser and Wirth LA
- Pat Steir, Painted Rain @ Hauser and Wirth Hollywood
- Marta Lee, A Room of One’s Own @ Babst Gallery
- Wanda Koop, Objects of Interest | BARRÃO Stuck Rhyme @ Night Gallery North
- Jose Dávila, Photographic Memory @ Sean Kelly, Los Angeles
- Jef Geys, You don’t see what you think you see @ WIELS
- Todd Gray, Reality Reframed: Recent Works @ The 8th Floor
- Mythical Creatures: China and the World @ Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Venetian Vistas @ Hyde Collection
- Markus Amm, How Much Paint Is in a Painting @ David Kordansky Gallery
- John Henderson, enchaînement @ Perrotin
- Stanley Whitney, Dear Paris @ Gagosian
- Mika Tajima, Energetics @ Pace Gallery
- Andreas Eriksson, Two Columns and a Sunny Day @ Stephen Friedman Gallery
- Pitsiulaq Qimirpik @ The Java Project
- George Inness: Visionary Landscapes @ Montclair Art Museum
- Amir Zaki, Nothing To Say @ Diane Rosenstein Gallery
- Leonard Rickhard, Between Construction and Collapse @ Astrup Fearnley Museet
- Dianne Ballon, Lost and Found: Sounds of the Maine Coast @ Maine Maritime Museum
- Tony Cokes, Two Works and an Archive @ Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College
- Liliana Porter, The Gardener and Other Situations @ Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College
- I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws @ Wassaic Project
- Cecilia Vicuña, Soñar el agua, una retrospectiva del futuro (1964–) @ MALBA
“Stages”
- The Winter’s Tale @ MUCCC, 8 February 2024
- Ethnic Heritage Ensemble @ Bob Shop Records, 12 February 2024
- Johanna Drucker, “Alphabet Origins: Knowledge Technologies in the Humanities,” @ Letterform Archive/San Francisco Public Library, 10 May 2023
- VoCA Talk: Peter Jemison @ Buffalo AKG Museum, 10 September 2023
- Alfredo Colón, Alcove/Our Armor @ Roulette, 5 February 2024
- Bob Dylan, “Sugar Baby” @ Madison Square Garden, 19 November 2001
- Lee Kun-Yong, “Snail’s Gallop” @ Pace Gallery, 18 August 2023
- Robin D. G. Kelley and Peter Linebaugh with Christina Heatherton on American Thanatocracy @ Howard Zinn Book Fair, 24 January 2024
Screens
- The Greatest Night In Pop
- Criminal Record
- Constellation
- Lumumba: Death of a Prophet, dir. Raoul Peck
- Lumumba, dir. Raoul Peck
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, dir. Johan Grimonprez
- Sun Tunnels, dir. Nancy Holt