Everyone knows that Artreview hires a series of actors to represent it at fancy (and less fancy) art events around the world. How else could it keep looking so young, so fresh, so clean after 77 years of waddling around in the cradle of filth...
During a short residency in Palermo, I often found myself thinking about Naples in 1943, as described by Curzio Malaparte in the autobiographical novel La pelle (The Skin, 1949). The first Italian city to be liberated by the Americans,...
In August 2024 my book Black Arsenal was published. It explores the contribution of Black identities – past and present – to the London football club’s culture. To me, the book is a way of understanding the deep historical connection...
Nicholas Goodly’s second poetry collection, Star Power (2026), is an everyday manifesto for Black queer joy. Exploring basic desires – fame, fortune, sex, attention – the poet peacocks multiple personas through frothy and at times...
