In this exhibition review, artist, researcher and curator, Kaitlyn B. Jones delves into the parallels and overlapping concepts Kevin Demery and Andrew Mcilvaine share in part two of a joint project shown at Gallery Bogart in Kansas City.

60 days before the United States presidential election, St. Louis-based artists Saj Issa, Basil Kincaid, and Ronald Young ask us to see beyond the ordinary and envision something more than just what lies in front of us.

Contemporary documentation, innovation, and the dispersal of historical knowledge is necessary archival work that supplements the embodied experience of what it means to be Black. This essay delves into a conversation about the sustainability of Black archival practices via arts & culture.

This essay is not a direct criticism of the The De Luxe Show’s content, nor is it meant to disregard the historical achievements of Peter Bradley with the sponsorship of the de Menil family. But I humbly and fervently offer my analysis of the elitism, classism, racism, and saviorism that exists among the undercurrents of this exhibition’s inception and display.