EDITOR'S PICK

Thomias Radin: A painter with the mind of a dancer

The late summer Parisian sunlight spills into Esther Schipper Gallery as artist Thomias Radin tours me through his homecoming solo show. Between Heaven and Earth: Human Contingency coalesces his decade-plus artistic practice. It continues his ruminations on the contemporary human condition through the choreographic legacies of Black contemporary dance trailblazers — like Ismael Ivo, Alvin […]

Friendship is up! Renegotiating the rules of being together in times of crisis

“I realised I simply did not want to inherit loneliness.” The past year, particularly, I’ve noticed a surge of videos and wholesome memes across social media sites about friendship. This may be my algorithm just doing the algorithm thing (anyone who knows me knows I am chronically obsessed with friendship) but still, it had me […]

Palestine as the heart of the anti-imperialist struggle

Min al mayye lil mayye, Falasteen arabiye من المية للمية فلسطين عربية We’ve all lost count of the number of times we’ve repeated this chant over the last two years of mobilising for Palestine. There’s an inherent risk when we repeat things over and over—that they become monotonous, lose their meaning, turn into slogans rather […]