Shade Art Review
Lou MensahContemporary art criticism. Spotlighting Black artists and social impact by Lou Mensah.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 107 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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The Plate We Were Given
Venice 2026 and the art we consume without question
A few days before the Venice Biennale released its 2026 artist list, I read a piece by Seph Rodney in Hyperallergic. Reviewing the Bronx Museum’s AIM Biennial, Rodney takes issue with wor...
Rerouting the gaze, unspringing the trap: The free and slippery bodies in South Asian photography
Guest essay by Eleanor Sanghara Güstard
Eleanor Sanghara Güstard inherited an old Nikon F50 from her late father. When the lens cracked, she kept shooting through it. Those “poor images” became a methodology for navigating her position bet...
Joy Gregory: Face, Camera, Process
At Whitechapel Gallery 'Catching Flies with Honey' goes beyond portraiture's expectations
Welcome back. I’m thinking about curating an exhibition around something I feel is missing from what we see in photography exhibitions. I can’t say w...
A Body Sheds
Bodies in flux inspired by Ashley Nkechi Igwe's text for Read My World festival, and my final podcast of 2025 on art and accessibility.
As 2025 closes, I’m thinking about bodies that shed, transform, and refuse fixed identification.
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