American Sublime is the personification of Black American life. It is the experience of living in a country that often struggles to acknowledge the harm done to Black and Brown communities while simultaneously claiming those communities as part of its national identity. It is the tension of having an experience that is continually questioned, minimized, or erased. When speaking your truth sounds threatening to those around you, you begin to speak in symbols, in metaphors, in parables that...

“I fall in love a little just a little bit, everyday with someone new,” Hozier sang. Today I did too, with people I met and people I encountered only through their art. The exhibition Where Being Takes Root was a peek into the life of Larry Walker(1935–2023) and his family. A prominent figure in the Atlanta art scene, his collection was a time capsule that invited wonder at every turn. Art collections do this well, especially with masterful curation, so thank you Lauren Jackson Harris. The...

Feminist theory has argued that there is a “white-male-position-accepted-as-natural, or the hidden ‘he’,” that is the subject of all scholarly predicates.[1] Despite feminist interventions, the default viewpoint of the white male continues to hold in the visual arts today, especially when the black body is the subject. Stuart Hall argues exactly that when he speaks of ‘the construction of white representation of blackness’ in film being totalizing and harmful.[2] This harmful totalizing view...