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Brooklyn Rail: NSE #1206 | Sampada Aranke, Michelle Kuo, Adam Pendleton, David Reed, and Richard Shiff (April 2025)

Chief Curator at Large and Publisher at The Museum of Modern Art and curator of Jack Whitten: The Messenger Michelle Kuo joins scholar Sampada Aranke, and artists Adam Pendleton and David Reed for a conversation hosted by Rail Consulting Editor Richard Shiff.

Curating the Commons: Common Knowledge (Expo Chicago, April 2024)
Panelists: Felipe Mujica (artist), Savannah Wood (Executive Director, Afro Charities), Sampada Aranke

Common Knowledge reaches into our collective past to explore the power that archives and collections have to shape our collective memory, history, and the lessons that we derive from them. The conversation ranges from the personal, thinking about artists and artist spaces as archives unto themselves and the importance of writing your own history, all the way to the communal, looking at the archive as a public service. 

Under the Cover: Revolutionary artist Emory Douglas on The Black Panther (October 2023)

For the October 2023 episode, The Black Panther’s minister of culture Emory Douglas talks with art historian Sampada Aranke about the inception of the Black Panther Newspaper, becoming the publications revolutionary artist, and creating the 1971 poster commemorating the life of “lil” Bobby Hutton, which appears on the cover of this month’s Artforum.