Essays

Essays

Regularly commissioned texts introduce ideas for discussion and reflection on post. Texts are often published in their original languages as well as in English translation.

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Identity and Abstraction: Ernest Mancoba in London and Paris, 1938-1940

By Joshua I. Cohen

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Gertrudes Altschul: an Adopted Brazilian Photographer in São Paulo

By Paula Kupfer

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Part 1: Lygia Clark: If You Hold a Stone

By Luis Pérez-Oramas

Colombo Art Biennale and Colomboscope: Islands in an Unmappable Sea

"We Painted the Crystal, We Thought About the Crystal"—The Crystalist Manifesto (Khartoum, 1976) in Context

By Anneka Lenssen

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Part 2: Tarsila, Melancholic Cannibal

By Luis Pérez-Oramas

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Part 1: Tarsila, Melancholic Cannibal

By Luis Pérez-Oramas

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Entwining Caribbean, British, and American Art Histories: Trouble at the Turn of the “Transnational” and “Provincial”

By Leon Wainwright

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“My goal has been to create a body of work without rules”: Simón Hosie in Conversation with Catalina Acosta-Carrizosa

By Simón Hosie, Catalina Acosta-Carrizosa

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Notes from the Archive: MoMA and the Internationalization of Haitian Painting, 1942-1948

By Marta Dansie, Abigail Lapin Dardashti

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Part 2: “Art Has No Borders”: Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange

By Hiroko Ikegami

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Part 1: “Art Has No Borders”: Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange

By Hiroko Ikegami

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