New Beginnings
A first look at the 60th New York Film Festival
Harvest Moon
The 17th Istanbul Biennial’s audacious return to form
Pharoah Sanders (1940–2022)
David Grundy on Pharoah Sanders
Under the Cover
David Velasco speaks with Arthur Jafa about “Live Evil” at LUMA Arles
Julia Phillips
Giving form to the attachment and ambivalence of motherhood
Blonde on Blonde
Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe nightmare
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PRINT September 1993
Lorna Simpson’s Waterbearer
Bell Hooks
LORNA SIMPSON’S PHOTOGRAPH Waterbearer was reproduced in 1987 in one of the early issues of B Culture, a progressive black newspaper of arts and culture that was fresh beyond all belief. For a brief moment in time B Culture was the expressive space for everything radical and black—it was on the edge. Of course, it disappeared. But not before publishing a full-page reproduction of Waterbearer.
Carefully pressing my newspaper copy with a hot iron, to remove all creases, I taped this page on the wall in my study, awed by the grace and profound simplicity of the image: a black woman with disheveled