New / Now

Review: Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time
e-flux Criticism, October 2026

Interview: Traces: Dionne Lee in conversation with Re'al Christian
IMPACT Arts + Culture Magazine vol. 5, no. 2, Fall 2026

Book: 50 YEARS of ART PAPERS, 1976–2026
Edited by Sarah Higgins, co-edited by Re’al Christian
ART PAPERS, September 2026

Magazine issue: ART PAPERS Fall 2025 | 2026: Horror After Horror
Co-edited by Re’al Christian and Sarah Higgins
ART PAPERS, Fall 2026 (originally published online in Fall 2025)

Publication: An Incomplete* Listing of NYC Libraries, Reading Rooms, and Archives (3rd edition)
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, September 2026

Book + foreword: Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts
Sming Sming Books, September 2026

Interview: Ignacio Gatica Interviewed by Re’al Christian
BOMB, August 2026

Research project: A Study of Two Cities: Seville, Kansas City, and Social Aesthetics Across the African Atlantic
Supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 2026

Soon

Program series: Black Feminist Study Group IV (organizer)
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, October 31, 2026

Exhibition: open the window, hold the door
Feat. Amanda Marrè Brown, Re’al Christian + Sarah Higgins, Jaakko Pallasvuo, and Zander Raymond
Project Art Distribution, October 31, 2026

Recent

Talk: Re'al Christian on (Dis)continuous Archives
ICP Photobook Club, International Center of Photography, October 3, 2026

Book launch: 50 YEARS of ART PAPERS
Feat. Sarah Higgins, Re'al Christian, Dan R. Talley, and moderator Emily Watlington
The Classroom at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, September 27, 2026

Reading: Art and Theory Today: Readings from the Index
e-flux, September 22, 2026

Essays: All That Sustains Us: Medina Triennial 2026 Guidebook
Carole Harris, Jane Jin Kaisen, Dionne Lee, Finnegan Shannon, and Jean Shin
Medina Triennial, June 2026

Program: Black Study in Editing / Museums as Systems 2026
Feat. Re’al Christian, Yusuf Hassan, Zoë Hopkins, and Jessica Lynne
Studio Museum in Harlem, June 27, 2026

Review: Danae Io’s Recording Angel in e-flux Index #9
e-flux, May 2026 (originally published by e-flux Criticism, July 2025)

Feature: The Far-off Elsewhere: Exhibiting Pan-Africanism
ART PAPERS, Spring 2026

Guest editor + contributor: Horror After Horror
ART PAPERS, Fall 2025, co-edited with Sarah Higgins

Book: As for Protocols (co-editor)
Edited with an introduction by Re’al Christian, Carin Kuoni, and Eriola Pira
Amherst College Press / Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 2025