Rhyme, Not Replication: Curating and Interpreting Almost Unknown – by Jonathan Michael Square and Tyler Horne

Rhyme, Not Replication: Curating and Interpreting Almost Unknown – by Jonathan Michael Square and Tyler Horne

This interview brings together Jonathan Michael Square, curator of Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery (Winterthur Museum, May 2025–January 2026), and Tyler Horne, Tour Programming Assistant at the Winterthur Museum. Inspired by William J. Wilson’s 1859 essay “Afric-American Picture Gallery,” the exhibition, Almost Unknown, brought the essayist’s imagined gallery to…

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“My interventions project back what has been erased”: Firelei Báez in Conversation with J. Cabelle Ahn

“My interventions project back what has been erased”: Firelei Báez in Conversation with J. Cabelle Ahn

J. Cabelle Ahn Firelei Báez is a New York–based artist of Dominican and Haitian descent whose practice excavates the ideological histories and material legacies that shape the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Her paintings layer hand-painted, enlarged versions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and French geographic games, maps, and charts—artefacts of the European Enlightenment that were themselves reliant on…

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Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre with Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror: A Review

Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre with Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror: A Review

Thomas Crow Jacques-Louis David, sous la direction de Sébastien Allard (Paris, musée du Louvre), 15 October 2025-26 January 2026 Retrospective exhibitions devoted to Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) have recurred at the Louvre on a roughly regular pattern. The modern cycle commenced in 1948 on the bicentennial of the artist’s birth, just four…

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Art, Environment, and the Expanded Landscape: A Dialogue – by Stephanie O’Rourke and Kelly Presutti

Art, Environment, and the Expanded Landscape: A Dialogue – by Stephanie O’Rourke and Kelly Presutti

This dialogue brings into conversation two recent volumes on landscape. While they take different approaches, both Stephanie O’Rourke’s Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction (University of Chicago Press, 2025) and Kelly Presutti’s Land into Landscape (Yale University Press, 2024) foreground the potential for landscape to reveal new facets of our historical and…

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