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

Book + essay: 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

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

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

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

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

Recent

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

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

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

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