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Isaac Julien
artdaily.com. "Exhibition presents sixteen sculptures by the Harlem Renaissance master Richmond Barthé"
ArtDaily
. April 8, 2024.
Max L. Feldman. "Can a 1960s Social Experiment Help Reimagine the Museum?"
Frieze
. March 14, 2024.
Hrag Vartanian, Valentina Di Liscia and Natalie Haddad. "First Impressions From the 2024 Whitney Biennial"
Hyperallergic
. March 13, 2024.
Jason Farago, Travis Diehl, and Martha Schwendener. "Dozens of Artists, 3 Critics: Who’s Afraid of the Whitney Biennial 2024?"
The New York Times
. March 13, 2024.
Siddhartha Mitter. "Whitney Biennial Picks a ‘Dissonant Chorus’ of Artists to Probe Turbulent Times"
The New York Times
. January 25, 2024.
Mark Jenkins. "Video artwork captures the sweep of Frederick Douglass’s Oratory"
The Washington Post
. January 17, 2024.
Allyssia Alleyne. "The Most Influential Artists of 2023"
Artsy
. December 14, 2023.
Sean Burns. "The Top Ten Shows in the UK and Ireland in 2023"
Frieze
. December 8, 2023.
ArtReview. "Power 100: Most influential people in 2023 in the contemporary artworld"
ArtReview
. December 6, 2023.
Briana Ellis-Gibbs. "Isaac Julien: “Portrait Photography Through the Lens of Fredrick Douglass”"
Hyperallergic
. September 21, 2023.
Folsade Ologundudu. "Isaac Julien’s Pictures and Progress"
photograph
. July 1, 2023.
Ayanna Dozier. "Inside Isaac Julien’s Soulful, Cinematic Survey at Tate Britain"
Artsy
. June 23, 2023.
William Corwin. "Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me"
The Brooklyn Rail
. June 2023.
Laura Cumming. "Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is to Me review – ghosts, dandies, and seduction"
The Guardian
. April 30, 2023.
Mark Hudson. "Isaac Julien – What Freedom Is to Me review: Beauty in abundance, but the political works are sidelined"
The Independent
. April 25, 2023.
Siddhartha Mitter. "Prevailing Latitude"
Artforum
. May 2023.
Prince Shakur. "Isaac Julien: New Futures, Queer Pasts"
ArtReview
. May 02, 2023.
Elizabeth Fullerton. "Looking for Freedom, Isaac Julien Comes Home"
The New York Times
. April 28, 2023.
Eddy Frankel. "Isaac Julien: ‘What Freedom Is to Me’"
Time Out
. April 26, 2023.
Rachel Spence. "Artist Isaac Julien: ‘You have to change the top brass’"
Financial Times
. April 20, 2023.
Deborah Willis. "Isaac Julien Uses the Archives as a Springboard for Reinvention"
Frieze
. March 22, 2023.
Ilana Herzig. "In Philadelphia, Isaac Julien Reimagines the Life and Legacy of Lina Bo Bardi Through Moving Images"
Architectural Record
. March 13, 2023.
Stephanie Bailey. "Sharjah Biennial 15 Subverts and Contradicts, Generating Potent Reflections"
Ocula
. March 8, 2023.
Emily Watlington. "The 15th Sharjah Biennial Does Better At Excavating the Past Than Pushing the Present"
ARTnews
. March 6, 2023.
Mark Westall. "Tate Britan to Present UK’s First-Ever Survey Exhibition of Sir Isaac Julien"
FAD Magazine
. December 19, 2022.
Alexander R. Bigman. "Statues Never Die: Isaac Julien at the Barnes Foundation"
Art in America
. October 31, 2022.
Osman Can Yerebakan. "An overdue ode to the influence of Black cinema opens in Los Angeles"
The Art Newspaper
. August 26, 2022.
Julian Lucas. "A Black British Artist Asks, “What was Africa to the Harlem Renaissance?"
The New Yorker
. August 11, 2022.
Amah-Rose Abrams. "How Filmmaker Isaac Julien Brought the Late Alain Locke, the First African-American Rhodes Scholar, Back to Life"
artnet news
. August 18, 2022.
Arthur Lubow. "Questioning the Place of Black Art in a White Man’s Collection"
The New York Times
. August 5, 2022.
Robert Sullivan. "At the Barnes Foundation, Isaac Julien Stages a Soaring Ode to Black Creativity"
Vogue
. July 29, 2022.
Peter Crimmins. "Looking at the lookers: The power of African art at the Barnes Foundation"
WHYY/PBS
. July 5, 2022.
Robert Barry. "“You look for your own art history” – an interview with Isaac Julien"
Apollo
. May 30, 2022.
Interview between Stuart Comer and Isaac Julien. "Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston"
MoMA Magazine
. June 15, 2022.
Rita Charleston. "New film explores the relationship between Barnes and Harlem Renaissance founder"
The Philadelphia Tribune
. June 14, 2022.
Alex Greenberger. "Pioneering Filmmaker and Artist Isaac Julien Knighted By Queen of England"
ARTnews
. June 2, 2022.
Katherine Tamiko Arguile. "Transcending the boundaries of time and place"
In Daily
. March 16, 2022.
Contemporary And. "Isaac Julien Receives Goslar Kaiserring 2022"
C&
. February 1, 2022.
Erik Piepenburg. "The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This"
The New York Times
. January 20, 2022.
M.H. Miller. "The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week"
The New York Times Style Magazine
. December 16, 2021.
The Art Newspaper. "‘My work rejects the linear time developed in conventional films’: Isaac Julien on Lina Bo Bardi, displaying art and the Italian Renaissance"
The Art Newspaper
. December 16, 2021.
Ben Luke. "A brush with… Isaac Julien"
The Art Newspaper
. December 8, 2021.
Travis Diehl. "Interview: Isaac Julien on Architecture and Performance"
PIN-UP
. December 7, 2021.
Osman Can Yerebakan. "Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – Marvelous Entanglement"
The Brooklyn Rail
. December 7, 2021.
Renny Pritikin. "Isaac Julien @ McEvoy."
Square Cylinder
. March 8, 2021.
Chan, TF. "Isaac Julien judges Wallpaper Design Awards 2021."
Wallpaper
. January 7, 2021.
Andrew Russeth. "Four Artists on the Future of Video Art."
The New York Times Style Magazine
. July 22, 2020.
Zoe Lescaze. "12 Artists On: The Financial Crisis."
The New York Times Style Magazine
. July 21, 2020.
Nicole Miller. "Isaac Julien’s Political Memory."
Hyperallergic
. April 18, 2020.
Gabriella Angeleti. "Expert Eye: Isaac Julien shares his favourite works at Art Basel in Miami Beach."
The Art Newspaper
. December 7, 2019.
Curtis, Nick. "Isaac Julien interview: ‘I didn’t think that my identity as a black British person would be challenged in 2019’."
EveningStandard
. October 1, 2019.
ICA. "When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art."
Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
. September 25, 2019.
Compton, Nick. "Artist Isaac Julien celebrates Brazilian Architect Lina Bo Bardi on film."
Wallpaper Magazine
. June 21, 2019.
Steer, Emily. "The Space Between Isaac Julien."
Elephant
. Summer 2019.
Flanigan, Robin L. "Immersive installation brings Frederick Douglass to life."
University of Rochester
. April 19, 2019.
D’Souza, Aruna. "Isaac Julien at Metro Pictures."
4Columns
. March 29, 2019.
Sayej, Nadja. "Isaac Julien on Frederick Douglass: ‘It’s an extraordinary story.’"
The Guardian
. March 15, 2019.
Dunks, Glenn. "Isaac Julien: ‘It’s another watershed moment for history of queer rights.’"
The Guardian
. February 16, 2018.
Hotchkiss, Sarah. "Don’t Let its Title Confuse You, ‘Playtime’ Isn’t All Fun and Games."
KQED Arts
. December 12, 2017.
Desmarais, Charles. "It’s ‘Playtime’ at Fort Mason and there’s video."
San Francisco Chronicle
. December 1, 2017.
Petty, Felix. "Writer Hilton Als and Filmmaker Isaac Julien Discuss Black Gay Desire."
i-D
. July 4, 2017.
Rachel, Cole. "Isaac Julien on the Changing Nature of Creative Work."
The Creative Independent
. July 23, 2017.
Sung, Hannah. "British Artist Isaac Julien on selfies, race and working with a global perspective."
The Globe and Mail
. April 12, 2017.
"Isaac Julien: Playtime – Announcement."
e-flux
. February 14, 2017.
Tam, Amy. "Isaac Julien: Still a Young Soul Rebel."
I Am Film
. November 30, 2016.
Edmonds, Lizzie. "I hit film’s glass ceiling because of my race, says director Isaac Julien."
Evening Standard
. October 20, 2016.
Fialho, Alex. "Critic’s Pick: Isaac Julien."
Artforum
. June 7, 2016.
Margulies, Abby. "Gazing at Photographs that Look At and Past Us."
Hyperallergic
. June 7, 2016.
Wood, Sura. "Talking with Isaac."
Bay Area Reporter
. April 28, 2016.
Wattenberg, Brendan. "The Pleasure of the Image: A Conversation with Isaac Julien."
Aperture
. April 29, 2016.
Mendelsohn, Meredith. "5 Must-See Spring Art Exhibitions in San Francisco."
Architectural Digest
. May 10, 2016.
Millner, Caille. "Review: Isaac Julien."
Frieze
. May 26, 2016.
Helfand, Glen. "Isaac Julien: Vintage at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco."
Photograph
. May 2016.