New / Now


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

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


Soon


Reading: Art and Theory Today: Readings from the Index
e-flux, September 22, 2026, 7 PM

Curatorial project: ICP Photobook Club: Re'al Christian on (Dis)continuous Archives
International Center of Photography, September 26, 2026, 11AM–1PM

Book: 50 YEARS of ART PAPERS
Edited by Sarah Higgins and co-editor Re’al Christian
ART PAPERS, Fall 2026

Book launch: 50 YEARS of ART PAPERS
Feat. Sarah Higgins, Re'al Christian, Dan R. Talley, and moderator Emily Watlington
Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, September 27, 2026, 3 PM

Program series: Black Feminist Study Group (organizer)
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, October 9–31, 2026


Recent


Program: Black Study in Editing / Museums as Systems 2026
Studio Museum in Harlem, June 27, 2026

Editor: Post/doc Spring 2026: Fugitive Ecologies
Feat. Ryan C. Clarke and Le’Andra LeSeur
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Spring 2026

Program: Momus Convening: To Build and Sustain (invited publisher)
PHI, Montréal, June 26–27, 2027

Program: Firelei Báez: Feet squelching on wet grass, nourished by uncertainty
In conversation with Firelei Báez
Brooklyn Rail, online, May 19, 2026

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

Feature: Revolt (v.)(n.)
ART PAPERS, Horror After Horror, Fall 2025

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

Book: Acts of Art in Greenwich Village (co-editor)
Edited by Howard Singerman with Re’al Christian and Katie Hood Morgan
Hunter College Art Galleries / Hirmer Verlag, 2025