Pharoah Sanders (1940–2022)
David Grundy on Pharoah Sanders
Under the Cover
David Velasco speaks with Arthur Jafa about “Live Evil” at LUMA Arles
Blonde on Blonde
Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe nightmare
Julia Phillips
Giving form to the attachment and ambivalence of motherhood
Lost Property
The disappearing architecture of Jean Welz
SAVING FACE
Graham Bader on portraiture in the age of artificial intelligence
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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