
A Toolkit for gathering.
It is time to plan more meaningful gatherings for the future.
More »It is time to plan more meaningful gatherings for the future.
More »The project of inclusion is painful. It is the contending of deeply rooted structures that our bodies do not and cannot conform to.
Within art-world centers, inclusion of Indigenous art is complicated by a number of factors including an ongoing omission of Indigenous nationhood expressed as sovereignty.
More »In lieu of seismic institutional change, "firsts" are personal wins that are extrapolated to virtue signal "change," and become iconographies of representation for marginalized people, the vast majority for whom a hiring freeze is still in place.
More »Trans and queer artists of color have been generating vantapower, the power that comes from living in the flesh that disorganizes hegemonic social relations.
More »"What is the future? What is hope? Where can it go? Who has access to hope when everything crumbles?"
More »Criticism is a field forever in crisis: purgatorial, underfunded, and dependent on other structures for its existence, so the litany of complaints are both lived realities and perennially relevant.
More »Amid a broader landscape of closures, we regret to announce that Art Practical's publishing relationship with California College of the Arts (CCA) will conclude on June 30, 2020.
More »What was absent in the MIX archive accounted for as much meaning and context as that which was present—and who exactly held the power to render things visible or not, was clear.
More »Inclusion denotes safety, legacy, and foundation. Part of what is being dangled in inclusion is the condition of object immortalization: air conditioning, guards, conservation experts, curators, educators, more.
More »This is one narration of Brown witnessing to the white cube and its attending supremacies, under an administration currently working to ensure our annihilation.
More »Trees, pets, technology, all have been made to serve the advancement and preservation of humankind. What happens when advancement stalls, or doesn’t move forward as expected?
More »For our sixth episode of Notes from MoAD, multidisciplinary artist Indira Allegra and curator Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen discuss an expanding of world and experience, the interplay of consent and complicity, exhaustion of identity-based inquiry, and the temperature of colonialism.
More »Rodney Ewing and Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen talk about institutions and the things we learn about our work when we listen openly.
More »DeShawn Dumas and Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen discuss the fragility and resilience of glass and the limits of the art institution as community space.
More »Photographer and visual artist Chanell Stone and curator/organizer PJ Gubatina Policarpio revisit Natura Negra (Black Nature), Stone’s exhibition at Museum of African Diaspora.
More »Artist Vincent Miranda and curator/organizer PJ Gubatina Policarpio talk about the ideas and influences for Miranda’s upcoming exhibition at MoAD.
More »Artist Sydney Cain and curator PJ Gubatina Policarpio meditate on the vision and process that inspire Cain’s upcoming show Refutations at MoAD.
More »At Art Practical, we have compiled a selection from the many proliferating online lists and guides in response to COVID-19 directed to artists, art educators, cultural workers, and cultural organizations. While certainly not all-encompassing, we hope that this list can direct our readers to useful resources and strategies, as the situation rapidly evolves.
More »As the climate crisis escalates and the sixth mass extinction approaches, we are thinking through all the things that are coming to an end, but also business-as-usual behaviors being called to end.
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