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A Place For Me: Navigating My Blackness Through Film and Print

At one point, I am certain it was grand. That’s not how I met the Castle Theater in the 1980s, its opulence long gone. You could pay four dollars and see as many movies as you wanted. There were two

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Announcing Our Summer Issue

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Edmonia Lewis confronted American slavery in her sculptures. Then history forgot her.

A new exhibition of her masterworks is traveling the country and reclaiming her place in American history.

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Julie Mehretu’s Advice to Young Artists

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Artforum

From the Archive: Archigram’s Obsolete Futurism

When one reassesses the architectural designs of the technologically obsessed, postmodernist Archigram Collective (1961–74), they encounter a brand of space-age Futurism that feels as cutting-edge and charmingly obsolete as a pulpy sci-fi novel. In an essay for the October 1998 issue of Artforum, architect Joel Sanders evaluates the significance of the group’s pre-digital forays into virtual […]

Theo Belci·Jun 15, 2026