Barbara Smith and Meg Onli

Helen speaks to the legendary Black lesbian feminist scholar Barbara Smith and Meg Onli, co-curator of the 2024 Whitney Biennial, about identity politics in the art world today, the role of criticism, and questions of cultural appropriation.

Barbara Smith is the 2022-23 Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence at Brooklyn College, and you can support her work at The Smith Caring Circle.

Meg Onli’s exhibition Carolyn Lazard: Long Take, is on view at the ICA Philadelphia until July 9th and she is the co-curator of Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation, on view at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin through July 30th.