Akeem Smith: No Gyal Can Test

By Darla Migan

NOV 2020 | ArtSeen

Akeem Smith’s No Gyal Can Test is an exploration of the visual, sonic, and material culture emanating from dancehall, wherein the now globally exported form is understood from its social and political specificity and not simply for its unforgettable style.

The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570

By Christian Kleinbub

SEPT 2021 | ArtSeen

If you think yourself immune to the seductions of visual propaganda, go check out the current Met exhibition, The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570. It will test you.

Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test

By Amanda Gluibizzi

NOV 2019 | ArtSeen

Throughout Wardrobe Test, we encounter women trying things on: costumes, other voices, new or different personae. And yet despite, or even through, this garb, we also witness glimpses of what we have to assume or hope to believe is the person within, the compassionate collaborator and mourner, the artist as empath, the woman of faith above all else.

Editor’s Note

By Gillian Jakab

DEC 19-JAN 20 | Dance

As 2019 draws to a close, this section dedicates a number of its pages to the Bauhaus centennial. The Bauhaus legacy has stood the test of time, not least because of its principle of inclusion; its multi-disciplinary and egalitarian values saw dance and performance integrated into its design practice.