Legacy Russell

A feminist manifesto that centers artists as the engineers of a queer and Black imagined future.

Upcoming shows, retrospectives, and museum openings highlighted by Maika Pollack, Ratik Asokan, Alex Zafiris, Gideon Jacobs, Michael Barron, Wendy Vogel, Zack Hatfield, and Legacy Russell

The origins of nostalgia and some theoretical foundations of photography.

Choreography, hip-hop, and cricket in New York.

A.K. Burns on the queer body, slipping between forms, American fetishes, and becoming a cyborg.

Legacy Russell and Bibi Deitz explore the Venice Biennale, interviewing and photographing the audience along the way.

Amy Adler on artist’s rights, the impact of conceptual art on law, and Texts from Hillary.

When I meet Oscar Murillo for the first time, it is in Central London. Murillo lives and works in East London.

Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans delights and enchants with her provocative media installations.

South Africa-based painter Richard Hart brings a recipe for immortality to the canvas with fresh perspectives on a globalized neo-primitivism.

Bellatrix Hubert talks with Legacy Russell about the state of the arts, not being a curator, and the buzz of her recent Hummingbird.

It was Eyal Weizman’s collaboration with fellow architects and geopolitical theorists Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti that first caught my attention years ago and incited my enduring admiration.

Legacy Russell “Twinterviews” artist Devin Kenny about studio practice, studio work-outs, studio recordings, and how hip-hop helps to keep things in motion.

Legacy Russell interviews performance artist Ann Hirsch about being scandalous, scandylicious, and the radical politics of the packaged female form in the sex-saturated era of reality television and social media.

Artist Jason Lazarus has his hands full—with GIFs, pics, and sign-sticks.

Artists Christopher Gideon and Elissa Goldstone live and work miles apart. Yet, they love the same game. The two sat down to discuss baseball and its role within the stadium of contemporary art.

Invented by Ryder Ripps, DUMP.FM is an online image-share platform with the rising reputation as one of the primary breeding grounds for young digital artists. One of them is Glass Popcorn. And he needs a date to the dance.

Artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy collaborated with producer SOPHIE and triple-threat Chelsea Culp at the New Museum in September. The result? Paint on the dance floor, and an inescapable harmony that you can’t help but whistle to.

Micki Pellerano creates his own cosmos in his drawings. Legacy Russell takes a walking tour through the Lower East Side’s envoy enterprises and the mythical regions of an artist’s mind, beyond revelation.

Legacy Russell interviews artist Man Bartlett about Occupy Wall Street, class and economy, and how Twitter just might be the next frontier for public sculpture.