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June 9th, 2026 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Thresholds. Liudmila Velasco’s Long Road Home

Although I am an avowed admirer of her solo work and have known her for nearly twenty-five years, I do not remember ever having spoken in person with Liudmila Velasco. About her work, about the weather, about how unbearable this or that artist can become. When I left the island, Liudmila was already practically an institution within Cuban women’s photography...

June 8th, 2026 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Before the Flood: Tim Harrier’s Spirit Guides

When we first came across Tim Harrier’s Shaman Spirit Guides, we dismissed them without mercy as the product of artificial intelligence. The mud-covered faces, the animals emerging from the background, and an unbroken frontal force produced, almost at once, a malignant suspicion. Suspicion ran far ahead of the work. And we are right to suspect almost everything in life. This series, no...

June 7th, 2026 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Gee Horton and the Construction of a Mythology of African American Mourning

There is a book. Before the exhibition, before the charcoal drawings spread across the galleries of the Contemporary Arts Center, before the viewer crosses the blue thresholds into the dreamworld of Freeman Little...