I joined photographer Ruben Natal - San Miguel at the Brooklyn Museum last Sunday for Honor Juneteenth —the annual holiday commemorating the end of legal slavery in the United States — with a full day of activities celebrating self-expression, community, and Black liberation and creativity. Ruben focused his lens on the Black women at the event.

Kat Ryals and Kate Stone once described their two-person exhibition at Ortega y Gasset, Swallowed into the Soft Underbelly, as theme park meets haunted house. The intoxication of excess cannot permanently hide the creeping decay in our interiors.

Arcade Project’s M. Charlene Stevens sat down with Claudia Hart to discuss her work’s place in art history and why this Eurocentric and patriarchal history needs to die so that new ways of seeing and thinking can potentially thrive.

Artist and actor Leslie Silva was, like the rest of us, caught off-guard by the sudden emergence of the pandemic this year. M. Charlene Stevens talked with her about overcoming isolation and quarantine, stepping up to the #artmuseumchallenge on Instagram, and growing her artistic practice during this difficult time.

In the time of online viewing rooms, film and video are the media that are native to our screens. There is no flattening or distortion to make the viewer long for the days when brushstrokes, surface texture and depth could easily be taken in with the naked eye. We are addicted to screens and we are attracted to the moving image.

The Armory Show 2020 culminated on Sunday March 8th: International Women’s Day. Incidentally, there were many outstanding works by women artists on view at Pier 90.