The photographer, curator, and academic founded the Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU to animate conversations about the archive of African American imagery from the 19th century to today. Willis ...

The modern civil rights movement emerged alongside the explosion of TV and popular pictorial magazines. Suddenly Americans were watching scenes of demonstrators—black and white—being beaten and ...

Gilberto Rivera, An Institutional Nightmare, 2012. Federal prison uniform, commissary papers, floor wax, prison reports, newspaper, acrylic paint. (Photo by Argenis Apolinario / Courtesy of Gilberto ...

What does the future look like? Sages of old used to study animal entrails or tea leaves to guess at such matters. The gurus over at Getty Images have a more contemporary method: measuring what kinds ...