People of the Otherworld: Ken Kiff in Dialogue

By Alfred Mac Adam

JULY/AUG 2023 | ArtSeen

Curated by Kathy Battista, People of the Otherworld introduces Ken Kiff’s work to a New York audience unaware of his existence. This it accomplishes in grand style by amassing twenty works produced between the 1960s and 1990s. It also seeks to show Kiff’s affinities with ten younger artists, including some who are not painters.

Strike Diary

By Rona Lorimer

MARCH 2023 | Field Notes

It is as if everyone is asking themselves when the violence will really start. This was the same in the demonstrations about the cost-of-living crisis in October. People were calm, especially in unions like SUD, they weren’t the least concerned about any hierarchization of protesters, nor were they scared of the police.

The Business of Art is the Business of People

By Lise K. Ragbir and Julia V Hendrickson

JUNE 2023 | Critics Page

People of the global majority are being invited into predominantly white art spaces like never before. And, at rates like never before, we’re seeing the ways in which many of these institutions are under-supporting employees. Efforts have been made, but “diversity hires” and DEI fatigue shed light on the ways in which stop-gap measures alone can’t upend a system that wasn’t built for everybody. Even if, in our capitalist society, we’re all seen as human resources.

Yevgenia Belorusets’s War Diary

By John Domini

FEB 2023 | Books

War Diary mounts an unrelenting assault on civilized comforts.