Paul Laster is a writer, editor, curator, artist and lecturer. He’s a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and writer for Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Art & Object, Galerie Magazine, Sculpture, Cultured, Architectural Digest, Garage, Surface, Ocula, Observer, ArtPulse, Conceptual Fine Arts, Berlin Art Link and Glasstire. He was the founding editor of Artkrush, started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Russell Simmons’ OneWorld Magazine , as well as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, now MoMA PS1.
To accompany his Contemporary African Art curation at SCOPE Immersive, Laster sits down with Neo-pop artist Anjel to discuss his practice. Anjel’s work is known for creating a contrast between realistically rendered Black bodies and abstract, logo-loaded, and colorful backdrops.