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Q&A with Julia Alekseyeva, author of "Antifascism and the Avant-Garde"

Mar 31 2025
Author Julia Alekseyeva discusses what lessons antifascist avanat-garde documentaries from the 1960s hold for our current political moment.
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The Overdue Recognition of Lorraine O’Grady, Trailblazer of the Conceptual, Black Feminist Avant-Garde

Apr 20 2021
A look into the work and career of artist Lorraine O'Grady is also a chronicle of the art world's exclusionary politics. As Cassidy George writes in an article for Vogue: "O’Grady—both then and now—saw the city’s art scene for what it was: an elitist world defined by hierarchies of race, gender, and
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