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Hale County Revisited

In photographs and a new film, RaMell Ross offers a poetic vision of Southern life.

A Startling Discovery at San Quentin

Ear Hustle podcast creator Nigel Poor uncovers a trove of photographs at California’s most infamous prison.

For Durimel, Black Humanity is Not a Fashion Trend

The young photography duo Jalan and Jibril Durimel are transforming the fashion world’s visions of beauty.

Is Fashion Modern?

MoMA’s first fashion exhibition in seventy years is all about icons, accessories, and objects of desire.

Martine Syms: Conscious Resistance

In photographs and videos, an artist pushes back against reductive stereotypes of black life.

Robert Cumming Invents the Photograph

Constructing sets that look functional but are intentionally useless, an artist parodies the seamless illusion of images.

Surreal Sexuality

In his staged, gel-lit nudes, Jimmy DeSana explored the body as object.

Renée Cox: A Taste of Power

Uri McMillan speaks with Renée Cox about icons and avatars of black style, from Angela Davis to Beyoncé.

Elle Pérez’s Havens of Queer Liberation

On dance floors from the Bronx to Baltimore, the artist captures LGBT youth who refuse to be forgotten.

A Portrait of the Artist as Claude Cahun

Ahead of her new exhibition in London, Gillian Wearing speaks about Claude Cahun, self-portraiture, and feminist icons.

Justine Kurland's Great American Road Trip

Justine Kurland crossed the United States in a weathered van, pursuing a chronicle of American Drifters.

Dispatches: Cairo

On the rooftops of Egypt’s capital, photographers reclaim the urban landscape.

A New Grammar for Blackness

Award-winning poet Claudia Rankine reflects on the intricate drawings of Toyin Ojih Odutola.

Noisy Pictures

In this sonic sequence, a group of leading curators, writers, and historians reflect on images that won’t stay quiet.

Vision & Justice: Radcliffe Roye

From the streets of New York and beyond, a democratic vision of humanity.

Vision & Justice: Awol Erizku

A young photographer finds inspiration in Old Masters and Afropunk.

Archipelago

Ishikawa Naoki traveled around Japan over ten years, depicting canted colorful scenes of everyday life. 

Highway Kind

Crossing the United States in her beat-up van, Justine Kurland pictures America’s tangled sense of itself.
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