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On addressing systemic issues and creating access in the classical music industry.
On addressing systemic issues and creating access in the classical music industry.
Interrogating constructed behaviors of intimacy.
Celebrating little-known stories of Black pride and resilience in London’s West Indian community.
On her new film, Aggie, the reimagining of art, and the urgency of justice.
Decade of Fire is a remarkable tale of the Bronx’s rise from ash, standing to set the record straight about the fires that ravaged the borough in the late ’60s and ’70s.
The composer and multimedia artist on raising awareness of the Asian experience during the pandemic.
Acknowledging the past in order to construct a better future.
The writer of Bunk on American hucksterism, racism, plagiarism, and why we believe what we want to believe.
Two improvisers and composers discuss their involvement in New York’s experimental music scene.
A 1971 photograph by Jan van Raay shows artist Cliff Joseph leading a group of artist-activists—members of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC)—in the dead of winter protesting the Whitney Museum’s controversial exhibition Contemporary Black Artists in America (months before its opening on April 7, 1971).
“I can’t distill it all,” Evie Shockley confesses in her contribution to this vital and multifarious print offshoot of Claudia Rankine’s online Open Letter Project.
I met Claudia Rankine in a parking lot after a reading, where I said crazy fan things like, “I think we see the same thing.”
Bill Orcutt discusses his new solo album A History of Every One, bending genres in Harry Pussy, Bob Dylan, authenticity, and the history of blackface.
Artist Tia-Simone Gardner and Dr. Jeffreen Hayes of the Birmingham Museum of Art discuss the museum’s contribution to the 50 Years Forward campaign, marking the 50th anniversary of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
It’s high noon in Bruneville. Not a cloud in the sky.
Some images in life and art remain seared in one’s memory because of their sublime effect and power. Such images are found and masterfully constructed in the films of Cauleen Smith.
The legendary animator and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, innovator of documents of generational angst like Fritz the Cat and Coonskin, has turned to visual art.
How does national identity influence the interpretation of an artwork?
Johannesburg to New York, a joint exhibition by Samson Mnisi and Cannon Hersey, at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts succeeds, ultimately, at inspiring unity.
Montana Wojczuk reviews the documentary William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe.