{"id":1984119,"date":"2026-06-11T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1984119"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:00:37","slug":"carmen-maria-machado-on-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1984119","title":{"rendered":"Carmen Maria Machado on Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><main class=\"gh-main\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Carmen Maria Machado on Power<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Plus, the largest survey of Arthur Jafa\u2019s work is coming to New York.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-11\">June 11, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>You may know Carmen Maria Machado as the author of the acclaimed short story collection <em>Her Body and Other Parties<\/em>, or her memoir<em> In the Dream House<\/em>, a candid chronicle of abuse in a queer relationship, or her many other published works. But the Cuban-American writer, who was a photography major in college, has also long collaborated with visual artists. Today she speaks to Associate Editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin about her latest venture as a guest curator of painter Roc\u00edo Garc\u00eda\u2019s exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art \u2014 a show she hopes will inspire us \u201cto be interested in both the violence and power of the state, and the power as we exchange it between people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also today: a major Arthur Jafa survey coming to the New Museum, a historic Indigenous art acquisition in Phoenix, and the latest installment in Beer With a Painter, featuring Palestinian-American icon Samia Halaby.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, I&#8217;ll be at the Albuquerque Museum for Legacy Lab New Mexico, speaking on a subject that&#8217;s dear to us here at Hyperallergic \u2014 how artists can leave their mark on the world. If you\u2019re signed up, I hope you\u2019ll come and say hello.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Valentina Di Liscia, senior editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/carmen-machado.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tWhat Carmen Maria Machado Wants You to Know About Power<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tFor <em>The Object of Power is Power<\/em>, titled after a quote from George Orwell\u2019s 1984, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in Soho invited author Carmen Maria Machado to collaborate with Head Curator Stamatina Gregory on a one-room show of paintings by Cuban artist Roc\u00edo Garc\u00eda.\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n      Walking through the dim cave of the gallery, I felt instantly that Machado had met her match: Garc\u00eda\u2019s massive canvases narrate tales of their own, trading in the very same questions of sexuality and power that the author has long probed through language. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/MSM-Tara-K.-Daly_3-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Health, Technology, Art, and Design Intersect at UC Davis Graduate Showcase<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>On view at the Manetti Shrem Museum through June 20, the multidisciplinary exhibition features projects by 20 arts graduate students.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/arthur-jafa.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The New Museum will hold the largest-ever survey exhibition of works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Arthur Jafa this September, Titled\u00a0<em>I Am Tony\u00a0<\/em>in honor of the late jazz drummer Tony Williams.<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix Art Museum will soon showcase 100 works by Native American artists tracing creative resilience over the course of a century following its largest-ever gift of Native American art.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/synthetic-hair.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAn Artist Duo\u2019s Haven of Synthetic Hair<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tMerryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Fr\u00e9squez steamed, cut, and sewed together lengths of hair by hand to create an ecosystem of biomorphic sculptures. | Chie Xu\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/bennett-ad.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>The Bennett Prize Opens Fifth Call for Entries<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Women figurative realist painters can enter to win $75,000 and a traveling solo exhibition. Applications are open through September 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/samia-halaby.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tBeer With a Painter: Samia Halaby<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tAt her longtime studio in Tribeca, the Palestinian-American painter discussed her experimentation with color and how she \u201caccidentally stepped into abstraction.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tRemembering Willie Valentine, Marjane Satrapi, and John Claridge<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThis week, we honor a champion of Southeast Asian art, the giant behind \u201cPersepolis,\u201d and a photographer dedicated to London\u2019s East End.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">(1) &#8216;ethical AI&#8217; \ud83d\ude02 (2) &#8216;In reality, it has more in common with our theme parks like Disneyland, with their meticulous crafting of \u201cexperience.\u201d&#8217; well said! &amp; also related to the theme-parkization of art one sees ( here in the UK &amp; I guess in the US too) in those horrible &#8216;immersive&#8217; Van Gogh &amp;c. money spinners &#8230;(3) &#8216;It was exhilarating. It was mesmerizing. I felt like I was going to be sick.&#8217; Nice comic timing!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Michael Szpakowski on \u201cMy Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA\u2019s New AI Art Museum\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/jafa-archive.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tConfronting the Limits of Catharsis in a Video About Black American Life<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tArthur Jafa\u2019s \u201cLove Is the Message, The Message Is Death\u201d communicates a truth about black life in the US: Many of our public encounters erupt in violence or are premised upon violence. | Seph Rodney\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Carmen Maria Machado on Power<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Plus, the largest survey of Arthur Jafa\u2019s work is coming to New York.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-11\">June 11, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>You may know Carmen Maria Machado as the author of the acclaimed short story collection <em>Her Body and Other Parties<\/em>, or her memoir<em> In the Dream House<\/em>, a candid chronicle of abuse in a queer relationship, or her many other published works. But the Cuban-American writer, who was a photography major in college, has also long collaborated with visual artists. Today she speaks to Associate Editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin about her latest venture as a guest curator of painter Roc\u00edo Garc\u00eda\u2019s exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art \u2014 a show she hopes will inspire us \u201cto be interested in both the violence and power of the state, and the power as we exchange it between people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also today: a major Arthur Jafa survey coming to the New Museum, a historic Indigenous art acquisition in Phoenix, and the latest installment in Beer With a Painter, featuring Palestinian-American icon Samia Halaby.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, I&#8217;ll be at the Albuquerque Museum for Legacy Lab New Mexico, speaking on a subject that&#8217;s dear to us here at Hyperallergic \u2014 how artists can leave their mark on the world. If you\u2019re signed up, I hope you\u2019ll come and say hello.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Valentina Di Liscia, senior editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/carmen-machado.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tWhat Carmen Maria Machado Wants You to Know About Power<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tFor <em>The Object of Power is Power<\/em>, titled after a quote from George Orwell\u2019s 1984, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in Soho invited author Carmen Maria Machado to collaborate with Head Curator Stamatina Gregory on a one-room show of paintings by Cuban artist Roc\u00edo Garc\u00eda.\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n      Walking through the dim cave of the gallery, I felt instantly that Machado had met her match: Garc\u00eda\u2019s massive canvases narrate tales of their own, trading in the very same questions of sexuality and power that the author has long probed through language. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/MSM-Tara-K.-Daly_3-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Health, Technology, Art, and Design Intersect at UC Davis Graduate Showcase<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>On view at the Manetti Shrem Museum through June 20, the multidisciplinary exhibition features projects by 20 arts graduate students.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/arthur-jafa.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The New Museum will hold the largest-ever survey exhibition of works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Arthur Jafa this September, Titled\u00a0<em>I Am Tony\u00a0<\/em>in honor of the late jazz drummer Tony Williams.<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix Art Museum will soon showcase 100 works by Native American artists tracing creative resilience over the course of a century following its largest-ever gift of Native American art.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/synthetic-hair.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAn Artist Duo\u2019s Haven of Synthetic Hair<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tMerryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Fr\u00e9squez steamed, cut, and sewed together lengths of hair by hand to create an ecosystem of biomorphic sculptures. | Chie Xu\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/bennett-ad.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>The Bennett Prize Opens Fifth Call for Entries<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Women figurative realist painters can enter to win $75,000 and a traveling solo exhibition. Applications are open through September 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/samia-halaby.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tBeer With a Painter: Samia Halaby<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tAt her longtime studio in Tribeca, the Palestinian-American painter discussed her experimentation with color and how she \u201caccidentally stepped into abstraction.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tRemembering Willie Valentine, Marjane Satrapi, and John Claridge<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThis week, we honor a champion of Southeast Asian art, the giant behind \u201cPersepolis,\u201d and a photographer dedicated to London\u2019s East End.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">(1) &#8216;ethical AI&#8217; \ud83d\ude02 (2) &#8216;In reality, it has more in common with our theme parks like Disneyland, with their meticulous crafting of \u201cexperience.\u201d&#8217; well said! &amp; also related to the theme-parkization of art one sees ( here in the UK &amp; I guess in the US too) in those horrible &#8216;immersive&#8217; Van Gogh &amp;c. money spinners &#8230;(3) &#8216;It was exhilarating. It was mesmerizing. I felt like I was going to be sick.&#8217; Nice comic timing!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Michael Szpakowski on \u201cMy Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA\u2019s New AI Art Museum\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/jafa-archive.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tConfronting the Limits of Catharsis in a Video About Black American Life<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tArthur Jafa\u2019s \u201cLove Is the Message, The Message Is Death\u201d communicates a truth about black life in the US: Many of our public encounters erupt in violence or are premised upon violence. | Seph Rodney\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>You may know Carmen Maria Machado as the author of the acclaimed short story collection <em>Her Body and Other Parties<\/em>, or her memoir<em> In the Dream House<\/em>, a candid chronicle of abuse in a queer relationship, or her many other published works. But the Cuban-American writer, who was a photography major in college, has also long collaborated with visual artists. Today she speaks to Associate Editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin about her latest venture as a guest curator of painter Roc\u00edo Garc\u00eda\u2019s exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art \u2014 a show she hopes will inspire us \u201cto be interested in both the violence and power of the state, and the power as we exchange it between people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also today: a major Arthur Jafa survey coming to the New Museum, a historic Indigenous art acquisition in Phoenix, and the latest installment in Beer With a Painter, featuring Palestinian-American icon Samia Halaby.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, I&#8217;ll be at the Albuquerque Museum for Legacy Lab New Mexico, speaking on a subject that&#8217;s dear to us here at Hyperallergic \u2014 how artists can leave their mark on the world. If you\u2019re signed up, I hope you\u2019ll come and say hello.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Valentina Di Liscia, senior editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/carmen-machado.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tWhat Carmen Maria Machado Wants You to Know About Power<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tFor <em>The Object of Power is Power<\/em>, titled after a quote from George Orwell\u2019s 1984, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in Soho invited author Carmen Maria Machado to collaborate with Head Curator Stamatina Gregory on a one-room show of paintings by Cuban artist Roc\u00edo Garc\u00eda.\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n      Walking through the dim cave of the gallery, I felt instantly that Machado had met her match: Garc\u00eda\u2019s massive canvases narrate tales of their own, trading in the very same questions of sexuality and power that the author has long probed through language. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/MSM-Tara-K.-Daly_3-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Health, Technology, Art, and Design Intersect at UC Davis Graduate Showcase<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>On view at the Manetti Shrem Museum through June 20, the multidisciplinary exhibition features projects by 20 arts graduate students.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/arthur-jafa.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The New Museum will hold the largest-ever survey exhibition of works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Arthur Jafa this September, Titled\u00a0<em>I Am Tony\u00a0<\/em>in honor of the late jazz drummer Tony Williams.<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix Art Museum will soon showcase 100 works by Native American artists tracing creative resilience over the course of a century following its largest-ever gift of Native American art.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/synthetic-hair.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tAn Artist Duo\u2019s Haven of Synthetic Hair<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tMerryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Fr\u00e9squez steamed, cut, and sewed together lengths of hair by hand to create an ecosystem of biomorphic sculptures. | Chie Xu\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/bennett-ad.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>The Bennett Prize Opens Fifth Call for Entries<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Women figurative realist painters can enter to win $75,000 and a traveling solo exhibition. Applications are open through September 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/samia-halaby.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tBeer With a Painter: Samia Halaby<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tAt her longtime studio in Tribeca, the Palestinian-American painter discussed her experimentation with color and how she \u201caccidentally stepped into abstraction.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tRemembering Willie Valentine, Marjane Satrapi, and John Claridge<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThis week, we honor a champion of Southeast Asian art, the giant behind \u201cPersepolis,\u201d and a photographer dedicated to London\u2019s East End.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">(1) &#8216;ethical AI&#8217; \ud83d\ude02 (2) &#8216;In reality, it has more in common with our theme parks like Disneyland, with their meticulous crafting of \u201cexperience.\u201d&#8217; well said! &amp; also related to the theme-parkization of art one sees ( here in the UK &amp; I guess in the US too) in those horrible &#8216;immersive&#8217; Van Gogh &amp;c. money spinners &#8230;(3) &#8216;It was exhilarating. It was mesmerizing. I felt like I was going to be sick.&#8217; Nice comic timing!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Michael Szpakowski on \u201cMy Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA\u2019s New AI Art Museum\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/jafa-archive.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tConfronting the Limits of Catharsis in a Video About Black American Life<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tArthur Jafa\u2019s \u201cLove Is the Message, The Message Is Death\u201d communicates a truth about black life in the US: Many of our public encounters erupt in violence or are premised upon violence. | Seph Rodney\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/06\/Rochelle-Saunders-in-the-studio_59415.jpg\" alt=\"Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Develop business skills for cultural management and production on this flexible, part-time online Masters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Central Saint Martins<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/05\/Lysistrata4.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Featuring live presentations, this exhibition grounds performance as the foundation of contemporary Native Art. On view at SITE Santa Fe June 5\u2013September 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">SITE Santa Fe<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/06\/Rose_2007.1.410.45_recto_pol-1.jpg\" alt=\"Divination, Mark Making, Boxing, &amp; Drawing: &quot;Tracey Rose&quot; at Ruby City\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Divination, Mark Making, Boxing, &amp; Drawing: &#8220;Tracey Rose&#8221; at Ruby City<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Opening June 6 in San Antonio, Texas, \u201cTracey Rose\u201d offers viewers an intimate look at the artist\u2019s groundbreaking multidisciplinary practice including performance and drawings.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Ruby City<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/05\/TPC_Garcia_full-1.jpg\" alt=\"America Today: Voices in Contemporary Print\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">America Today: Voices in Contemporary Print<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">On view at The Print Center through July 25, the exhibition highlights the power of print as a medium for expressing political ideals and urgent societal concerns.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">The Print Center<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/carmen-maria-machado-on-power\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Daily Newsletter Carmen Maria Machado on Power Plus, the largest survey of Arthur Jafa\u2019s work is coming to New York. 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