On Courage

On Courage

“Courage is the great enabling virtue that allows one to realize other virtues like love and hope and faith. To have courage is to be willing to look unflinchingly at catastrophic circumstances and muster the will to overcome the fear, never to fully erase and...
The Incomplete, Self-Generating Exhibition

The Incomplete, Self-Generating Exhibition

by Abraham Ritchie When is the proper time to review an exhibition? It’s a seemingly simple question that has become complicated because of another question: what constitutes an exhibition? Concluding on February 17, the Industry of the Ordinary’s sprawling...
An Ill Wind Blowing: Kevin Blythe Sampson

An Ill Wind Blowing: Kevin Blythe Sampson

The boat was supposed to be five times this large. Kevin Blythe Sampson was slated to create an epic vessel for “Vision and Vernacular: Eight African American Artists in Venice,” an exhibition of African-American self-taught artists and graffiti muralists...