Clifford Thompson

Elizabeth Catlett’s art embraced the causes of Mexicans, Black Americans, and all others around the world who were subject to Western imperialism.

The Met exhibition contemplates the power of the gaze in the Harlem Renaissance.

David Hammons is a genius. But at art? At scamming? Both?

Wendell Berry’s frustrating but utterly illuminating new book calls on us to treat our home, and our fellow citizens, with much greater care.

The mangling of American history has served to reinforce racism at the most fundamental level: through the stories and ideas we have passed on to our children.

Jamel Shabazz photographs a collective portrait of New York, documenting the varying degrees of humility that life in the city forces most of us to adopt.