Barriers to entry for his peers, Palley explained, include a sense of ignorance. “We’re used to seeing everything online — click to browse and click to buy — and there is huge transparency and the commercial art world is very opaque and hard to navigate.”

“That doesn’t work for us,” Palley continued. “My generation, we want to see numbers, we want t... See more

For Black Southerners, preservation has been challenging, even at an institutional level. Take, for example, the bounty that historically Black colleges and universities possess: papers, photos, all manner of artifacts. The wealth gap is evident. Lacking the capital of their White counterparts, Black institutions, even with the most careful of hand

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the spiked bench—designed by German artist Fabian Brunsing—which required payment before the spikes would retract into the bench’s surface. The latter’s design invites us to think critically about the metering of social life, where only those who can pay are allowed to rest (or play). The spiked bench also highlights the eugenic imagination and all

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