September 6, 2022
A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative and artistically ambitious, In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora. Embracing the mythic and… READ MORE
June 6, 2022
How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system in the 1960s and 1970s.
May 13, 2022
Big books and big ideas from our little corner of the world in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
February 22, 2022
The eight-book collaboration will provide a more nuanced and historically rich lens through which Tony Smith’s works and archive may be read today and by future generations.
February 3, 2022
New multimodal series will examine under-examined questions at the intersection of visual culture and subjects such as race, decolonization, and privilege.
August 24, 2021
A conversation between Gabriela Bueno Gibbs and Victoria Hindley of the MIT Press acquisitions team on Tina Campt’s newest book, A Black Gaze.
April 21, 2021
A podcast conversation between two authors published in Leonardo’s recent special issue, “Cosmos and Chaos,” reveals the interconnectivity of art and exploration and the complexities of being a woman in male-dominated fields.
February 2, 2021
“Visual culture is never neutral, and is thus never without value.”
October 22, 2020
McCray, author of Making Art Work, argues that some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art were breached.